It was January 1981 on a snowy dawn at the end of a dead-end track in Co. Tyrone. Andrew was in charge of a military observation team who had only just disarmed the gunmen responsible.
'It was a nightmare inside there,' recalls a soldier whom we will call Andrew. 'There was the husband on the kitchen floor with blood spurting out of an arterial wound.'
ROBERT HARDMAN: As I retrace the events of that night in slow motion, in the company of someone who knows that operation as well as anyone, I begin to despair of the creeping judicial over-reach.
Former royal aide and SAS officer Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a godfather to Prince George, has joined the call for an end to so-called lawfare that dates back to the Troubles.
Johnny Mercer, the architect of the Legacy Act, took aim at the former troops who have left Northern Ireland veterans exposed. It comes as former SAS soldiers face possible murder charges.
HARDMAN: For more than three hours, on a freezing February night, the 12 men from the Special Air Service had been lying behind a low, threadbare bit of hedge near the village of Clonoe
The wooden cabin in the remote Welsh mountains was packed with hulking blokes sitting silently on bunks with our kit taking up whatever space was left.