A coroner said Bradley was ‘engaged in activities on behalf of the IRA’ when he was shot 21 times by soldiers near Toomebridge on February 18 1986.

A coroner said that he had been ‘prevented’ from delivering a summary of intelligence information around the deaths of four people killed in 1992.

A new Act to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles will halt all related inquests after May 1.

Mr Justice Humphreys also concluded that the operation was not planned in a manner which minimised the need for lethal force.

A lawyer for Mr Brown’s family said the case for a full public inquiry is now overwhelming.

Bridget Foster, 80, a mother of five, was shot dead by a stray RUC bullet following a shoot-out between police and masked men.