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Nothing in this article about the appeal.--Vintagekits (talk) 17:02, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Reavey

According to his autopsy which was presented at the Sarah Reavey against the United Kingdom case at the European Court of Human Rights, Anthony Reavey died of a brain hemorrhage unrelated to the injuries he received in the gun attack. He was shot in the legs. The link is here: [1]--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 14:28, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is confirmed by the book Lost Lives. On page 621 it says:

The state pathologist Professor Thomas Marshall told the inquest jury that the shooting played no part in Anthony Reavey’s death and that he had died from natural causes. He said Anthony Reavey had suffered a haemorrhage caused by bleeding from congenital abnormal blood vessels in the brain. Questioned by counsel for the next of kin he said he was satisfied that the shooting had nothing to do with his death. He had given the cause of death very serious consideration and found nothing to link the shooting with it. Despite this inquest evidence, Anthony Reavey was named on an official list of Troubles victims made available to Parliament in 1995.

As noted there, he's listed as an "official" Troubles-related death. Sutton and other sources used in the article do likewise. How should we deal with that? ~Asarlaí 02:01, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should say in the article that although his autopsy proved he died of natural causes unrelated to the injuries he receiving in the shooting (cite ref), he is listed as an "official" Troubles-related death. (cite CAIN for example).--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ~Asarlaí 22:15, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McConnell

John Weir named Robert McConnell - a UDR man and Glenanne gang member - as having been the leading gunman in the Reavey killings, and the description Anthony gave afterwards roughly matched that of McConnell although the latter was masked. I think it should go in the article.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 07:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just added him. How does it look?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]