Failure to pass on specific details about a dissident republican murder threat may have contributed to the shooting of Jim Donegan in west Belfast, a high court judge rules
A failure by police to pass on specific details about a dissident republican murder threat may have contributed to the shooting of Jim Donegan in west Belfast, a high court judge has ruled.Madam Justice Quinlivan found there was a failure to warn him of the danger of being in that area.
The judge identified negligence around the processing of intelligence received months before the attack. Backing a challenge by the victim's family, she said: "The specificity of that threat may have caused Mr Donegan to change his pattern of behaviour, specifically in relation to collecting his son from school, and may have saved his life."
The judge said she was not satisfied that any acts by police could have resulted in Mr Donegan's killing, but she held the view that by not explaining the death threat fully to him, it may have contributed to his death.It emerged that in June 2018, police received information dissident republicans intended to target an unnamed man, who they believed to be involved in the drugs trade, who drove a Range Rover and regularly collected a child from school on the Glen Road.
Within days of receiving the information, police did inform Mr Donegan that he was under threat from dissident republicans.In 2019, police said
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