NORTHERN IRELAND
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Home Secretary Theresa May has faced a backlash after announcing that the Kincora child sex abuse scandal will not be probed as part of a UK-wide inquiry.
Ms May told the House of Commons on Wednesday that the Westminster-led inquiry will be confined to England and Wales and will not probe the east Belfast home where three staff were jailed in 1981 for child abuse.
Northern Ireland politicians and campaigners have repeatedly called for Kincora to be included in the Westminster probe.
“But Mrs May responded yesterday that Kincora was already being probed by the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry in Banbridge, which is examining abuse in Northern Ireland institutions from 1922 to 1995.
The home secretary told the Commons that there were “good reasons for confining the inquiry’s scope to England and Wales”.
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