NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
Victims of child sex abuse at Kincora are launching a legal challenge over the Secretary of State’s decision not to include the former children’s home in the Westminster abuse inquiry, UTV Live Tonight can reveal.
The case is going to court on Friday, after Theresa Villiers ruled what was one of Northern Ireland’s biggest sex scandals out of the government investigation.
It had been hoped the inquiry would look into what happened inside the former boys’ home and into claims of a cover-up at the highest levels within the security services and government.
But instead the Secretary of State said that Kincora would be investigated by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland.
Ms Villiers insisted there would be full co-operation and full disclosure from government, the Ministry of Defence and MI5.
Victims and senior politicians do not believe that is the best way to get the truth.
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