NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
01 AUGUST 2014
The Official Secrets Act should be suspended to allow former intelligence officers to give evidence about alleged cover ups during the child abuse inquiry, Amnesty International said.
An ex-soldier involved in military intelligence has claimed he was told to stop investigating sexual abuse at a boys’ home in the 1970s.
Brian Gemmell told the BBC he was ordered to halt his probe into Kincora Boys’ Home in Northern Ireland by a senior MI5 officer in 1975 after presenting a report on the allegations.
Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland director, said: “The focus must be the protection of children, rather than officials and their dirty secrets.”
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