NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY LIAM CLARKE – 14 JANUARY 2015
Security witnesses who give evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry will not face prosecution, it can be revealed.
The inquiry said it had received a letter of assurance from the Attorney General in London after yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph revealed Sir Anthony Hart’s probe into abuse had not contacted three potentially key witnesses.
They include former Army officer Colin Wallace, who was involved in black propaganda during the Troubles.
But after he raised concerns with his superiors about the sexual abuse of boys at the notorious east Belfast home, Kincora, he was convicted of the manslaughter of a friend, before later being cleared and compensated.
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