IRA trial judge dies at 87
Friday December 05 2008
A judge who jailed 22 members of the IRA for more than 4,000 years in Belfast in 1983 has died.
Basil Kelly who was aged 87 died after a short illness at a hospital in Berkshire, England.
Lord Justice Kelly had to wear a bullet-proof vest in the 1980's and was guarded by SAS men because of IRA threats on his life.
He was a former Attorney General in Northern Ireland and also a former Ulster Unionist MP in the old Stormont parliament.
