Kevin McGovern

Kevin McGovern 19 year, Kinawley, County Fermanagh, shot dead by the RUC at Cookstown, County Tyrone, on 29 September 1991. Mr McGovern, a student, the RUC said was shot as he attempted to throw something at them. Nothing was found. It was revealed the RUC had staked out the area hoping to catch an IRA bombing unit. 

The RUC member who shot the youth was later charged with murder. He was acquitted at trial, where the judge said that although the officer ‘acted honestly and mistakenly in self-defence, he did not act reasonably.’