'You never prosecuted terrorists!' Labour Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn heckled from the Troy benches as he delivers remarks in the Commons about the 1992 Clonoe ambush (when the SAS killed four IRA men), and about the Legacy Act in general.
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00:00The legislation which the last government passed would have given those very terrorists
00:08who were killed in the exchange of fire, if they had survived, the ability to secure immunity
00:16from prosecution. That is what the last government's Legacy Act did. It would have given anyone,
00:24soldiers but also terrorists, immunity from prosecution. I'm afraid this government takes
00:38the view that that was wrong, and the courts have determined that that was wrong, and that
00:47is why we are going to repeal and replace the Legacy Act.