EXCLUSIVE It was the SAS that saved the life of Irish republican Bernadette Devlin after a loyalist assassination attempt, veteran reveals to ROBERT HARDMAN after 44 years
'It was a nightmare inside there,' recalls a soldier whom we will call Andrew. 'There was the husband on the kitchen floor with blood spurting out of an arterial wound. The children were screaming and their mother was in the bedroom with at least six bullets in her.'
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