Shoot to Kill (1990)

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.
- Released
- 1990-06-03
- Runtime
- 240 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Peter Kosminsky
Cast
- Jack Shepherd as DCC John Stalker
- David Calder as DCS John Thorburn
- Patrick Drury as Detective Inspector
- Daragh O'Malley as Constable 'Y'
- George Shane as DCI Samuel George Flanagan
- Richard Hawley as Constable John Robinson
- T. P. McKenna as Chief Constable Sir John Harmon
- Philip Bretherton as DI Gaffrey
- Barry Birch as Michael Tighe
- Vass Anderson as Magistrate
- Emer McCourt as E4A Officer
- Jane Cunliffe as DS Eileen Scarrett
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