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STATEMENT FROM PFC/ JFF REGARDING DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE FORMER RUC OFFICER IN RELATION TO MULTIPLE MURDERS & ATTACKS FOLLOWING OPERATION NEWHAM INVESTIGATION

Following
21 February 2024
During the course of their investigation into the Glenanne series of murders (Operation Newham), the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) sent a file relating to a former RUC officer for consideration to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS). The PPS has now decided that there is insufficient...

File with PPS after soldier interview- McGreanery Case Update

Kevin Mullan, Derry Journal 16th September 2022
21 September 2022
This article by Kevin Mullan is from the Derry Journal 16.09.22 A British soldier has been interviewed under caution in connection with the fatal shooting of William McGreanery in 1971. A file has been sent to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to consider whether or not charges should be brought...

Labour calls for halt to bill shielding UK soldiers from prosecution

27 August 2020
Proposed Overseas Operations Bill would grant immunity from prosecution to British soldiers involved in torture and murder overseas.

"I AM JOHN PAT CUNNINGHAM"

London, 16th Sept, 11am
14 September 2017
This weekend Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans are organising a protest in London entitled "I AM DENNIS HUTCHINGS". (11am at Horse Guard Parade London). Hutchings is currently being prosecuted for the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham, a vulnerable adult, in Benburb in 1974.(Full case...

Diary entry from Attorney General

A diary of the meeting between J.M Parkin, Head of C2 and HQNI and Attorney General Basil Kelly and additional confirmation that the Attorney General fully understood that HQNI was telling him that he should not prosecute soldiers. In effect the military tail was wagging the legal dog. This meeting took place less than two months before Bloody Sunday

Memo of meeting between Attorney General and British Army

Two pages of a memo (AG 1971 p2 and AG 1971 p3) concerning the visit of a J.M. Parkin, Head of C2 at HQNI (British Army HQ) in the North to the then Attorney General Basil Kelly, a Unionist MP. In reference to any potential prosecutions of soldiers for the murder of civilians Parkin notes,

Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Barry McCaffrey, thedetail.tv
15 April 2013
The Director of Public Prosecutions could be asked to reopen hundreds of Troubles-related cases involving killings from the 1970s following the discovery of statements in newly declassified papers which suggest soldiers were allowed to escape prosecution.
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