Soldier ‘more than likely’ shot dead schoolboy, coroner finds Image source,PA MediaImage caption, Patrick Crawford was shot dead while walking through the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1975 Published 16 December 2024 An unidentified British Army soldier was responsible “more likely than not” for the fatal shooting of a schoolboy in the grounds…
Closing submissions on behalf of the Next of Kin of Master Patrick Crawford who was shot in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital on 10th August 1975 were lodged with the Coroner today. The inquest which opened in 2023 completed this year in Armagh, Antrim and Laganside Courts hearing evidence from civilian witnesses, former…
PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF FAMILY OF JOHN JAMES IRELAND ON INQUEST FINDINGS ISSUED 24TH NOVEMBER 2023 HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES The family of John James Ireland who was killed in a road traffic collision on the Monagh Road on the 13th of September 2014 at 6.45pm welcomed the findings of the Coroner…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES LEGACY INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF PATRICK DUFFY ON 24TH NOVEMBER 1978 ISSUED 30th JUNE 2023 At an inquest hearing yesterday 29th June 2023 Coroner Mrs Bagnall J was told that the 4 soldiers present at the scene of the shooting in 2 Maureen Avenue, Derry on…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 10TH JUNE 2023 INQUEST INTO THE DEATH IN CUSTODY OF JONATHON STEWART AT MAGHABERRY ON 17th MAY 2017 OPENS AT NEWRY COURTHOUSE ON MONDAY 12TH JUNE 2023 The family of 38 year old Jonathon Stewart welcomes the hearing of the inquest before Coroner Toal tomorrow Monday 12th…
Omagh bombing: independent inquiry announced into 1998 attack Car bomb killed 29 people in deadliest atrocity of Northern Ireland’s Troubles 01:28 UK government announces independent inquiry into 1998 Omagh bombing – video Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent @rorycarroll72 Thu 2 Feb 2023 13.13 GMT The British government is to hold an independent statutory inquiry into the…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES LEGACY INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF PATRICK DUFFY ON 24TH NOVEMBER 1978 13th JANUARY 2023 At an inquest hearing yesterday into the fatal shooting of Patrick Duffy by an undercover army unit in Derry on the 24th of November 197 the Coroner Bagnall J directed that the…
MoD accused of ‘deliberately delaying’ fresh inquest into 1978 Derry shooting of Patrick Duffy Rebecca Black, PA 05 October, 2022 16:39 The Ministry of Defence has been accused of “deliberately delaying” a fresh inquest into the death of a man in Derry in 1978 ahead of new legislation which would stop court cases around Northern…
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED 27th SEPTEMBER 2022 BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES INQUEST INTO THE DEATHS OF FINBARR MCGRILLEN & CARON SMYTH STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE MCGRILLEN FAMILY In his conclusions from a 2 week inquest into the deaths of and Finbarr McGrillen and Caron Smyth on the 12/12/2013 Belfast Coroner Mr Joe…
2 June 2021 LEGACY INQUEST REVIEW Press Release The Presiding Coroner, Mr Justice McFarland, today issued this statement following his review of legacy related inquests. He has identified a number of inquests which will be progressed by the Legacy Inquest Unit in Year 2 of the Lord Chief Justice’s Five Year Plan: “As Presiding Coroner,…