BRIGID HUGHES, whose husband Anthony was shot dead in an SAS ambush, celebrated today after winning a court case over the inadequate funding for inquests into historical killings in Northern Ireland.

Ms Hughes had challenged the failure of Northern Ireland’s Executive Office, Department of Justice and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to stump up enough money to prevent delays to such inquests.

Her husband Anthony was killed in May 1987 in the crossfire between British troops and the IRA at a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Co Armagh. Eight IRA members also died.