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Chief Constable Matt Baggott oversaw the irrational HET report

Press Release: McGurk’s Bar Commemoration Committee

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McGurk’s Bar Families Petition the Northern Ireland Policing Board on the Anniversary of the Atrocity Date: Thursday 4th December 2012 (the 43rd anniversary of the atrocity) Time: 2pm Place: Northern Ireland Policing Board, Waterside Tower, 31 Clarendon Road, Clarendon Dock, Belfast BT1 3BG Families of those murdered in the McGurk’s Bar massacre are petitioning the Policing Board […]

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McGurks Bar in the 1950s

Undermining the Eyewitness to the McGurk’s Bar Attack

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The Research Unit of the Government Information Service: Undermining the Eyewitness to the McGurk’s Bar Attack.   In a Judicial Review today (Friday 24th October 2014), our families and legal representatives, KRW Law, will challenge the irrational findings of what is the 4th Historical Enquiries Team report that we have seen. This latest report is completely at

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Amnesty International - Northern Ireland: Time To Deal with the Past

Amnesty International and McGurk’s Bar

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In June 2012, we met with renowned researchers from Amnesty International and told them our story. They went away and investigated the service journey we have suffered with the state authorities. In September of this year, Amnesty International released Northern Ireland: Time to Deal With The Past, a withering indictment of the state’s failure to

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McGurk's Bar campaigners meet with Amnesty International in June 2012

McGurk’s Bar Families in Court as Amnesty International Slams Failure to Deal with the Past

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This morning (12th September 2013), families of those who were murdered in the McGurk’s Bar bombing of 4th December 1971 will be in Belfast’s High Court to begin legal proceedings against the Chief Constable and his decision to block the release of an Historical Enquiries Team (HET) report into the atrocity.   At the same

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The father and mother of Stephen Lawrence.

Police: A Law Unto Themselves?

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Different Police Force… Same Old Story The conclusions of the Macpherson Inquiry (1999) into the Metropolitan Police Force’s handling of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence rocked the British criminal justice system to the core. The Inquiry concluded that the Stephen Lawrence “investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of

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