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| Phil Miller |
An “IRA unit” supposedly caught red-handed by Britain’s defence secretary during his army career was not prosecuted, casting doubt over his dramatic account of the incident.
Ben Wallace served as a Scots Guards officer in Belfast in 1992 and told The Sun he was decorated for capturing an IRA gang that had planted a bomb.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday in 2020, he briefed Britain’s biggest tabloid how his patrol found a sweet jar “filled up with Semtex plastic explosives and ball bearings, with wires coming out of it…primed and ready to kill.”
Five or six men suspected of handling the bomb were captured by the patrol in a pursuit “which involved jumping over fences and things like that”, Wallace claimed in the article.
In an earlier radio interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, he said: “We caught an IRA active service unit who was about to throw a rather large bomb at the patrol. And we didn’t just catch the person moving it, we caught the bomb makers – the whole shebang.”
Ben Wallace served as a Scots Guards officer in Belfast in 1992 and told The Sun he was decorated for capturing an IRA gang that had planted a bomb.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday in 2020, he briefed Britain’s biggest tabloid how his patrol found a sweet jar “filled up with Semtex plastic explosives and ball bearings, with wires coming out of it…primed and ready to kill.”
Five or six men suspected of handling the bomb were captured by the patrol in a pursuit “which involved jumping over fences and things like that”, Wallace claimed in the article.
In an earlier radio interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, he said: “We caught an IRA active service unit who was about to throw a rather large bomb at the patrol. And we didn’t just catch the person moving it, we caught the bomb makers – the whole shebang.”
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