PRESS RELEASE INQUEST VERDICT & ANONMITY RULING INTO THE DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) KILLED ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 AT RVH ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 11th JUNE 2025 On 29th May 2025, a Coroner in Belfast delivered a Ruling removing the anonymity protection from 2 military witnesses, previously known as…
STATEMENT BY BRONAGH HOLDEN & SAMUEL BOWDEN, DAUGHTER &SON, on behalf of FAMILY OF LIAM HOLDEN ISSUED 24TH MARCH 2023 BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES We very much welcome the detailed decision by the Court today. The Court has found that our father was waterboarded by the British Army in Belfast in…
Young men were subjected to coercion and oppression before “confessing” to terrorist crimes Published Date: 10.06.2022 A Police Ombudsman investigation has concluded that four young men arrested in Derry/Londonderry in 1979 were treated unfairly and made ‘confessional’1 statements which were not voluntary according to the standards of the time. PDF: Full public statement Operation-Farrier-Public-Statement.pdf The men…
London’s latest legacy proposals contain nothing for families bereaved in the conflict. No self-respecting judge, police officer/former police officer or historian should touch them with a barge pole. Perpetrators can apply for immunity from prosecution behind closed doors without their evidence being tested to substantiate their integrity or truthfulness. London’s latest legacy proposals contain nothing…
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has responded to the UK Government’s proposed Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill. Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick commented: “The Commission has been involved in this issue for many years. It is one that has continued to cause distress to people already traumatised by conflict. We have always approached…
Legacy plans ‘attack on rule of law’ British government plans for a blanket ban on all Troubles-era prosecutions represent an unprecedented attack on the rule of law, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. By The Newsroom, The Newsletter Tuesday, 5th April 2022, 8:10 am Counsel for two people bereaved during the conflict in Northern Ireland…
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