Shoot to Kill

Overview

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

Directed by Peter Kosminsky

Top cast

Jack Shepherd

DCC John Stalker

David Calder

DCS John Thorburn

Patrick Drury

Detective Inspector

Daragh O'Malley

Constable 'Y'

George Shane

DCI Samuel George Flanagan

Richard Hawley

Constable John Robinson

T. P. McKenna

Chief Constable Sir John Harmon

Philip Bretherton

DI Gaffrey

B

Barry Birch

Michael Tighe

Vass Anderson

Magistrate

Emer McCourt

E4A Officer

J

Jane Cunliffe

DS Eileen Scarrett

Niall Cusack

Pat Finucane

F

Fraser Downie

DCI Jim Smellie

Christopher Dunne

E4A Officer

Peter Cellier

MI5 Senior Officer

Colin Carnegie

Expert

P

Paul Brennan

Soldier

Denys Hawthorne

Professor

James Greene

DPP

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