An unsolved murder, the Troubles, and the British state
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The Times
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In 1991, 26 year old Margaret Perry was murdered. A year later, the three men suspected of being responsible were themselves killed. All four deaths came during the latter years of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Will a long awaited investigation into the period finally reveal any answers?
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| 0:00.0 | Matt Chorley, Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
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| 0:26.0 | podcasts. On the 21st of June, 1991 Perry a young civil servant from Portadown in Northern Ireland |
| 0:49.0 | vanished. The police in Puerto Rican have renewed appeal for information about a woman who's been missing since the 21st of June. |
| 0:58.0 | She's 26 year old Margaret Sarah Perry from Church Hill Park in the town. |
| 1:02.6 | She's described her slim with a sallow complexion, dark blue eyes, black hair. |
| 1:07.6 | For a year, her disappearance remained a mystery. Then, following a tip off from the IRA, her body was found |
| 1:18.8 | in a shallow grave over the border in Mullamore in Ireland. |
| 1:24.0 | They walked about for a full year after they killed Maggie Perry and got away with it. |
| 1:32.0 | More than 30 years on, despite the existence of three confession tapes, Margaret's |
| 1:38.8 | murder remains officially unsolved. |
| 1:44.7 | So who was protecting Margaret's killers? |
| 1:48.0 | Was it the IRA or the police? |
| 1:51.3 | And how much did the British state know about a series of murders in Ireland, including |
| 1:58.1 | Margaret's? |
| 2:00.5 | The families and friends of the victims have never received definitive answers. |
| 2:07.0 | But that could be about to change, following a six-year investigation into one of the murkiest episodes in The Dirty Wall. |
| 2:17.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 2:29.0 | Today, an unsolved murder, the Troubles and the British state. I'm Glenn Keo, I'm a senior reporter at the Sunday Times, specializing in in-depth |
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