The British government operated a 'widespread, systematic and systemic practice of impunity', protecting security forces from sanction during the Troubles, a new report by an international expert panel has found.
The British government operated a"widespread, systematic and systemic practice of impunity", protecting security forces from sanction during the Troubles, a new report by an international expert panel has found.
Convenor of the international expert panel Gisle Kvanvig said it reviewed existing reports such as inquests, coroners reports and ombudsman's reports, so they placed an emphasis on only looking into publicly available and official documents. Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said:"Amongst the 54 , there are also people that were killed by paramilitaries and this had to do with how we approached it because we had to develop a method for how to assess these cases."
He said among the key failings is that you would not link forensics to the suspects, or when you were interviewing suspects you would not pursue certain lines of inquiry.
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