Judgment in Belfast is delivered in challenge against UK refusal to hold public inquiry into 1998 atrocity
He explained he was unable to read the full open judgment setting out his reasoning because the person whose job it was to check the document to ensure it did not contain sensitive material was self-isolating with Covid-19.
He added: “We knew from, really, over 20 years, that this was a preventable atrocity, but it’s one thing for me to say it, it’s an entirely different thing for a senior High Court judge to. Former Northern Ireland secretary of State for the UK Theresa Villiers. File photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
The force’s Special Branch, which handled intelligence from agents, took limited action on the information and a threat warning was not sent to the sub-divisional commander in Omagh, an investigation by former police ombudsman Baroness Nuala O’Loan found.
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