IRELAND
Irish Times
An abuse victim today won the first stage in his court battle to have claims, that politicians and high-level British state agents colluded in a paedophile ring at a Belfast care home, examined by a statutory Westminster inquiry.
Gary Hoy was granted leave to seek a judicial review of the decision to keep the inquiry into the Kincora scandal within the remit of a Stormont-commissioned body.
His lawyers argued that the ongoing Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry sitting in Banbridge is powerless to properly scrutinise a “closed order” surrounding the home.
With MI5 accused of covering up the sexual abuse throughout the 1970s to protect an intelligence-gathering operation, a judge in Northern Ireland was told the current arrangements cannot compel the security services to hand over documents or testify.
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