Calls to ban UK forces number plates

Title

Calls to ban UK forces number plates

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

14 Aug 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:36

Description

Following the death of Regimental Sergeant Major Michael Heakin, his father Richard Heakin calls for the scrapping of UK forces car number plates. Michael Heakin had been identified by such plates and shot dead in Ostend, Belgium. Labour defence spokesman Martin O’Neill and an unidentified male soldier comment. Mark Percy reports.

Contributors

Mark Percy; Martin O’Neill; Richard Heakin

Keywords

Deaths; Motor vehicles; Terrorism; British; Cars; IRA; Belgium; Army; Identity; Soldiers; Michael Heakin

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