Robert Hamill
Robert Hamill, a Catholic, died on 8th May 1997 after being set upon by a crowd of loyalists in the Northern Ireland town of Portadown on 27th April 1997. His family alleges that RUC (police) officers were present at the scene in a landrover, but did nothing to intervene.
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The RUC put out press releases immediately after the attack claiming that there had been a fight between rival factions and that the police themselves had come under attack. Over time, they gradually admitted that the attack on Robert Hamill and three of his friends had been unprovoked, although they continued to maintain that RUC officers had intervened immediately but had been outnumbered. RUC officers in Northern Ireland are armed and, even if outnumbered, can fire shots in the air in order to disperse crowds.