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Sat 12 Dec 2008Judge in some of North's most high-profile trials
LORD JUSTICE BASIL KELLY:LORD JUSTICE Kelly, who has died aged 88, was a former attorney general in Northern Ireland and also served as Unionist MP for Mid-Down at Stormont between 1964 and 1972.
He once wore a bullet-proof vest and was guarded by SAS men because of IRA threats to his life. That was in 1983 when he presided at the trial in Belfast of 38 people implicated in Provisional IRA terrorism. He jailed 22 of the defendants for more than 4,000 years.
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