The World - News from March 28, 1988

Police in Northern Ireland charged a third man in connection with the slayings of two British army corporals who were beaten, then shot by mourners at an Irish Republican Army funeral. Shop manager Thomas Hawkins, 35, of Belfast, appeared in a Belfast court where he was charged with withholding information about the murders and allowing his premises to be used by terrorists. Cpls. David Howes, 23, and Derek Wood, 24, were killed March 19 after they tried to drive past the funeral procession for IRA member Kevin Brady. Two other men, Alexander Murphy, 30, and Henry Maguire, 28, were charged Friday with the soldiers’ slayings.