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…
PRESS RELEASE INQUEST VERDICT INTO THE DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) KILLED ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 AT RVH ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 16TH DECEMBER 2024 The inquest verdict into the death of schoolboy Patrick Crawford (15) shot dead in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 10th of…
The Public Prosecution Service will issue a decision on Friday 26th April 2024 regarding whether they will prosecute army personnel for the shootings of brothers Gerry and John Conway on the Ballymurphy Road on the 15th April 1972. The brothers were on their way to work walking on the Ballymurphy Road at 7.30am on the…
Joint Press Statement from Harte Coyle Collins and the Pat Finucane Centre Coroner refuses to list Patrick Duffy inquest due to MOD delays. A Coroner examining the death of Patrick Duffy, shot in the back and side 14 times by an undercover army unit on 24th November 1978 at 2 Maureen Avenue, Derry, has told…
Police `unlawfully given up’ pursuing lead on unsolved murder of Rosaleen O’Kane Rosaleen Kane 26 April, 2023 17:25 Counsel for relatives of Rosaleen O’Kane claimed the PSNI has failed in its legal duty to probe information naming three individuals potentially involved in a death described as a “whodunit mystery” Police have unlawfully given up pursuing…
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Damning report find Police coerced murder confessions out of Derry Four A report has found the Derry Four were coerced by the RUC into wrongly confessing to the murder of Lt Stephen Kirkby in 1979 The Derry News 10 Jun 2022 4:25 PM A damning report has stated that Police forced confessions from the ‘Derry…
The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has strongly criticised the UK government’s new legacy bill (as introduced into the UK Parliament today) and has called for it to be scrapped in favour of the prior proposals in the Stormont House Agreement. CAJ is highly critical of a number of aspects of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/09/troubles-amnesty-would-be-kick-in-the-teeth-says-daughter-of-victim See newspaper article published in the Guardian here.
It is a priority to make sure that young persons in police custody are properly represented by experienced lawyers. Persons under the age of 18 in Northern Ireland are treated as a vulnerable group of persons when in police custody after arrest. They are entitled to both the presence of an Appropriate Adult and the…
