The World - News from April 27, 1987

A Protestant leader in Belfast charged that the assassination of a Northern Ireland judge by Irish Republican Army guerrillas was made possible by an informant within the Irish Republic’s security forces. The Irish government rejected the accusation. Lord Justice Maurice Gibson, 73, and his wife, Cecily, were killed Saturday by an IRA car bomb near a border crossing shortly after their Irish security escorts had left and before they could be picked up by Northern Ireland escorts. James Molyneaux, a member of the Ulster Parliament and leader of the Official Unionist Party, said the timing of the blast “means the Irish security forces have been penetrated by the IRA.”