How one noble act prompted ex-Provo’s quest to find remains of Robert Nairac

South Armagh republican saved from certain death by Army medic appalled at IRA’s savagery in disappearing soldier

Martin McAllister in ‘The Disappearance of Captain Nairac’. Photo: BBC

For decades, a former IRA man has undertaken a private search for the body of one of the Troubles’ most mythical victims, Robert Nairac.

Now in his 70s, last year this man told his story anonymously in a BBC podcast.