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A Rathfriland man says the fact that two men jailed for boobytrapping his father’s body in the south were never questioned about the actual murder amounts to Garda-IRA collusion.

Mr Elliott’s father - also Jim - was abducted by the IRA in 1972 while working as a lorry driver. The UDR Corporal’s body was later found on the Monaghan border, boobytrapped with explosives; two IRA men were later jailed in the Republic for explosives offences.

Mr Elliott said last night: “I would like to see the police we have been in contact with stand up and give us the truth. And by that I especially mean the Garda and also the PSNI Legacy Investigations Branch. Nobody wants to know. They are hiding everything.”

A surviving IRA man was named in the Historical Enquiries Team report on the murder as having been convicted of boobytrapping the body.

‘There was Irish state collusion with IRA in my dad’s murder - now I want truth and justice,’ says Northern Ireland man