Officers told not to cross Border, says witness
TWO SENIOR RUC officers were told not to travel across the Border days before they were murdered in an IRA ambush in 1989, the Smithwick Tribunal was told on the opening day of its public hearings yesterday.
A former assistant chief constable, identified as Witness 18, who was granted anonymity and gave evidence from behind a screen, told the tribunal that he had told Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan at a meeting in Armagh on March 16th, 1989 they were not to cross the Border in investigating smuggling in the area.