NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY JOANNE SWEENEY – 12 FEBRUARY 2015
A government inquiry into historical child sex abuse may yet hear allegations regarding Kincora boys home following an undertaking by the head of the inquiry.
Justice Lowell Coddard surprised some members of the Home Affairs select committee when she said she had heard of the Kincora case, but was “not familiar” with it in response to a question about it from Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert.
She told the committee on Wednesday that she anticipated there would “probably be avenues by which to revisit” the issue and that she would “certainly raise it” for consideration with the home secretary if she felt it was important to do so.
Three senior care staff at the home in east Belfast were jailed in 1891 for sexual abusing 11 boys.
However, there have been claims that high-ranking security services personnel and senior political figures from England were also involved in the abuse.
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