NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Kincora probe has to access secret files, says former Army officer Colin Wallace
BY COLIN FRANCIS – 21 JULY 2014
Former Army officer and whistleblower Colin Wallace has called for any new investigation of the Kincora Boys’ Home to have access to information from intelligence agencies.
Mr Wallace tried to draw attention to sexual abuse at the east Belfast home in the 1970s.
He said if the home was included in the UK-wide investigation into institutional abuse, then the terms of any inquiry into what happened must be widened.
In 1981 three senior care staff at the home were jailed for abusing 11 boys.
It has also been claimed that people of the “highest profile” were connected – taken to mean senior politicians.
Mr Wallace received intelligence in 1973 to say that boys were being abused, but claims some of his superiors refused to pass on the information.
“I know that some officers from the security services in Northern Ireland did know and actually reprimanded intelligence officers from raising the matter and also told them they were to desist from any further investigation,” he said.
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