NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
17 FEBRUARY 2015
A former resident of a notorious boys’ home has welcomed a court decision to grant him permission to challenge the Government’s refusal to include the facility in its forthcoming child abuse inquiry.
Abuse victim Gary Hoy was granted leave at Belfast High Court to judicially review a decision by Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to restrict investigation of the Kincora home to an ongoing institutional abuse probe being held in Northern Ireland.
“It seems we are finally getting there in the end,” Mr Hoy said after the day-long hearing.
“I want justice, that’s all I want.”
A brutal paedophile ring abused boys from the Kincora home in east Belfast during the 1970s.
While three staff members were convicted in 1981, it has long been alleged that well-known figures in the British establishment – including senior politicians – were also involved.
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