On Tuesday of this week, yet another preliminary hearing was held in a Belfast coroner's court relating to the murder of Sean Brown twenty-six-years ago.
As the British Government prepares to enact legislation which will effectively end all prosecutions and investigations, including coroners’ hearings and civil cases, related to all conflict-related deaths, it should
On Monday last (November 30) the British government confirmed that it would not hold a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane ‘at this time’. The announcement was made by Brandon
These were heartfelt words of Geraldine Finucane to the media shortly after she discovered that the British government had decided 18 months ago to cease all preparations for a public inquiry into the brutal murder
Recently, the British government selected, funded and launched the ‘Consultative Group on the Past’, which professes to be “an independent group established to consult on the best way to deal with the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland [sic]”.
The coroner in charge of the inquests into the state killings of six County Armagh men in three separate shoot-to-kill incidents at the end of 1982 is to finally get access to the Stalker and Sampson reports.
The families of eight men killed by Britain’s death squads in the 1970s won a landmark victory in the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (November 27).
The family of two young men murdered by a pro-British death squad has said that a report into the double murder by the Police Ombudsman in the Six Counties has produced more questions than answers about collusion.
The man in charge of British policing in the Six Counties is facing decision time after a coroner formally requested that he hand over the Stalker and Sampson reports into the state killings of six County Armagh men in three separate incidents at the end of 1982.
