The Funeral Murders: ‘They were like hyenas ripping their kill apart’
TV Review: Chilling account of the murder of two British soldiers at an IRA funeral in 1988
New BBC documentary ‘The Funeral Murders’ by acclaimed film-maker Vanessa Engle follows a dramatic and deadly series of events that took place at two funerals in Belfast in March 1988. Courtesy: BBC
The conflict in Northern Ireland has been examined in so many ways, from so many angles, that you might imagine an account of the events of a single month in Belfast thirty years ago could no longer have the capacity to shock.
But the story of the deadly events of March 1988, pieced together skilfully and dispassionately by filmmaker Vanessa Engle in The Funeral Murders (BBC2, Monday, 9pm), loses none of its impact in the retelling.