NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY NAOMI LONG – 13 APRIL 2015
I would urge everyone who hasn’t already watched it to see last week’s harrowing revelations by former Kincora resident Richard Kerr about his traumatic experiences in the 1970s.
He claims he was hand-picked, alongside two other boys, and trafficked to London, where he was molested by powerful people at the centre of an alleged VIP paedophile ring. The dark shadow of accusation falls on Westminster itself, with the influential people believed to be figures there.
Richard’s brave decision to tell his story, linking the abuse at Kincora with similar at Elm Guest House and the Dolphin Square luxury flats for the first time, has further increased the arguments to investigate as part of the UK inquiry the abuse which took place at the east Belfast boys’ home.
While the Northern Ireland institutional abuse inquiry is the designated method to investigate what took place at Kincora, its chair, Sir Anthony Hart, does not have the same powers as the wider Home Office probe.
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