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The families of two UDR men killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen 50 years ago have said they will live with the pain of the events for the rest of their ...
Government plans prosecution ban on IRA bomb attacks in Britain Jake Ryan and Brendan Carlin for The Mail on Sunday © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Government plans to ban Troubles-related prosecutions will also halt investigations into mainland IRA attacks such as the Birmingham pub bombings, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Families of victims have told of their fury after learning the plans would stretch to include IRA attacks on the mainland. Terrorist attacks on the UK mainland were not covered as part of the prisoners' early release scheme in the 1998 Good Frid...
Government plans to ban Troubles-related prosecutions will also halt investigations into mainland IRA attacks such as the Birmingham pub bombings, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Families of victims have told of their fury after learning the plans would stretch to include IRA attacks on the mainland. Terrorist attacks on the UK mainland were not covered as part of the prisoners' early release scheme in the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. But the Mail on Sunday has learned the government is planning to extend an effective ban on prosecutions to include IRA atrocities carried out in Britain. A...
John Downey can't have legal consultations until he has covid vaccine John Downey 13 April, 2021 20:42 A pensioner charged with murdering two British soldiers 49 years ago needs to be vaccinated before the case can progress, a court in Belfast has been told. It will take another three months for John Downey to receive his Covid-19 jabs and be able to have face-to-face legal consultations, a judge was told. The 69-year-old is being prosecuted over a bomb attack which killed Ulster Defence Regiment members Alfred Johnston and James Eames in Enniskillen, Co Ferman...
Families of Hyde Park bombing victims to challenge High Court ruling PA 16 December 2020, 3:51 pm Families of the Hyde Park bombing victims say they will challenge a decision not to award punitive damages to “mark society’s condemnation” of the atrocity. Mr Justice Martin Spencer was asked at a High Court hearing earlier this month to award “exemplary damages” because relatives of four British soldiers killed in the atrocity have been denied some “measure of justice, and thereby closure” with no-one ever prosecuted, convicted and punished. In a ruling on Wednesday, the judge sai...