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PSNI-HET Report Was Another Cop Cover-Up

Be in no doubt, the PSNI-HET report into the McGurk’s Bar Massacre was another attempted police cover-up. The families of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre re-issue our simple challenge to the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI), Simon Byrne, after a High Court judge ruled that the PSNI/Historical Enquiries Team report into the atrocity […]

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Delay and Obfuscation: Families Demand Quashing of HET Report

Families of those killed in the McGurk’s Bar atrocity on 4th December 1971 are disgusted that the Police Service of Northern Ireland continue to delay their campaign for truth and justice. They demand that the Chief Constable quashes a report by the failed Historical Enquiries Team. 15 innocent men, women and children were killed in

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Níall Ó Murchú (left) and Ciarán MacAirt

McGurk’s Bar Families Take Legal Action To Access Blocked HET Report

Our statement in full: The Historical Enquiries Team (HET) has reviewed the RUC investigation into the McGurk’s Bar massacre of 4th December 1971. Its report was completed in December 2012 but its release has been blocked by the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Despite repeated requests and talks with the

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Michael Connarty, nephew of Philip Garry, the eldest victim of the McGurk's Bar bombing.

HET Shunts McGurk’s Bar Investigation BACK at the Police Ombudsman

The Historical Enquiries Team (HET) has finally completed the McGurk’s Bar Report… and referred it BACK to the Police Ombudsman. (Post on behalf of the McGurk’s Bar Commemoration Committee) On Thursday 6th December, Labour MP, Michael Connarty, urged the British Prime Minister to apologise to the families of the McGurk’s Bar victims and order a “proper investigation”. A

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Information Rights Tribunal Judgement: Police Lies and the Protection of Agents

In an historic legal win for the families, the Information Rights Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) to disclose evidence in Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) files regarding the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. This followed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) battle that has lasted over four years for the origin of

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Boutcher and Shillington

Historic Legal Victory for Massacre Families: PSNI Fails to Prove Origin of Police Lies

An Information Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) to hand over evidence in police files regarding the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. In a historic legal win for the families, the Information Rights Tribunal has ordered the Chief Constable of Police Service Northern Ireland to disclose evidence in Royal Ulster Constabulary

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Big Bill Campbell and the McGurk's Bar Massacre

No Reform for the Campbell Clan

Another member of the Bridgeton Campbell clan was in the news this week. The British rightwing populist Reform UK [a private limited company] removed Craig Campbell as its Scottish organiser after the Daily Record approached Nigel Farage’s party about Campbell’s Facebook posts and family background. The newspaper revealed Campbell to be the son of William

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British Army Observation Posts: Photo Appeal on Massacre Anniversary

Photo appeal on the 53rd anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre. The families of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre Campaign for Truth have launched a photo appeal that could provide further visual proof of key British Army observation posts overlooking the Gem Bar and McGurk’s Bar taken by an unknown photographer the morning after the massacre.

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