PRESS RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL CASE REVIEW COMMISSION (30TH OCTOBER 2024) A case in which police credibility has been questioned has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). John McDevitt was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986, after an attack on members of the British…
Man in court over mother’s murder in Belfast Image source,Pacemaker Published 16 September 2024 A 21-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his mother in east Belfast on Friday. The body of 43-year-old Rachel Simpson was discovered in a garage beside a property on the Castlereagh Road. Nathan Simpson, of Castlereagh…
PRESS RELEASE PARENTS OF GARY MOORE, MURDERED 6TH DECEMBER 2000, ISSUE FRESH APPEAL FOR INFORMAITON 23 YEARS AFTER DEATH ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 11TH DECEMBER 2023 The parents of Gary Moore shot dead on 6th December 2000 in Monkstown, Newtownabbey by loyalist paramilitaries, have today issued a fresh appeal to the…
Neutral Citation No: Judgment: approved by the court for handing down (subject to editorial corrections)* Ref: HUM12178 Delivered: 30/05/2023 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND ___________ KING’S BENCH DIVISION (JUDICIAL REVIEW) ___________ IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY KATHLEEN GRAHAM FOR JUDICIAL…
Judge brands police failures to investigate 1976 murder of Belfast woman Rosaleen O’Kane ‘egregious and inexplicable’ Rosaleen O’Kane, murdered in her north Belfast flat in 1976 Alan Erwin Today at 14:02 Police failures to properly investigate the suspected sectarian murder of a north Belfast woman 47 years ago are “shocking and disgraceful”, the High Court…
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…
The sister of a north Belfast woman believed to have been brutally murdered 46 years ago has won High Court permission to challenge an alleged failure to properly investigate her death. Kathleen Graham was granted leave into claims that police breached an obligation to fully probe the suspected sectarian killing of 33-year-old Rosaleen O’Kane. Mr…
PRESS RELEASE High Court Grants Leave for Judicial Review Hearing into Murder of Rosaleen O Kane in North Belfast in 1976 Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates 22nd November 2022 Lawyers for Kathleen Graham & James O Kane, sister and brother of Rosaleen O Kane who was murdered in her flat in North Belfast in…
The daughter of a man who was murdered by a prolific criminal released from custody days before carrying out a double killing says police failings cost her “my daddy”. It comes after an inquest found that Shaun Hegarty should not have been a free man when Caron Smyth (40) and Finbar McGrillen (42) were brutally…
Sean Hegarty’s release by police contributed to double murder of Caron Smyth and Finbar McGrillen, Coroner rules “I am satisfied that Sean Hegarty should not have been released at 2.47pm on December 9” Caron Smyth and Finbar McGrillen The actions of police in releasing a violent offender contributed to the deaths of two people…
