Desmond "Dessie" Grew (14 September 1953[2] – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

[3] Grew was killed by undercover Special Air Service soldiers in County Armagh in 1990 along with fellow IRA volunteer, Martin McCaughey who was also a Sinn Féin councillor.

Grew was convicted for a 1980 INLA robbery in Kells, County Meath, after his fingerprints were found on the license plate of the getaway car.

[10][11][12][13] On 9 October 1990, Grew was shot dead along with Martin McCaughey in Lislasley near Loughgall, County Armagh, in an operation by undercover British soldiers.

In January 2002, Justice Weatherup, a Northern Ireland High Court Judge ordered that official military document relating to the shooting should be disclosed.

Reaching its verdict after hearing weeks of evidence, the jury ruled that the SAS had used "reasonable force" during the operation and that the IRA men's own actions had contributed to their deaths.