NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY LIAM CLARKE – 17 FEBRUARY 2015
Richard Kerr is one of the most important witnesses to come forward with information about the Kincora sex abuse scandal.
He bears out the evidence of intelligence officers such as Colin Wallace and Brian Gemmell, who say that MI5 warned them not to investigate.
We knew this much when Mr Kerr gave a groundbreaking interview to Chris Moore of BBC Spotlight last year. Now his detailed interview and affidavit open up a more frightening vista.
It suggests that children’s homes were used like honey traps to keep politicians and paramilitaries under control and boys who complained were threatened with violence or jail.
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