Our most capable soldiers increasingly find themselves in court, partly because of the Human Rights Act, for actions that once won them medals for bravery, and this rolling boil of legal cases, is undermining not just the SAS, but the entire army.
It didn’t take long for a judge to deliver his withering verdict on a judicial review application into the use of SAS force in an IRA ambush ... of the SAS at Coagh in County Tyrone in June 1991.