NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
British security service shielded and blackmailed child sex abusers at Kincora care home, High Court hears
BY ALAN ERWIN – 01 JUNE 2015
The British security service shielded and blackmailed child sex abusers involved in a paedophile ring at a notorious Belfast care home, the High Court heard today.
Counsel for one victim claimed new evidence of the extent of state collusion and cover-up in the Kincora scandal must now be examined by a wider Westminster inquiry.
Gary Hoy is seeking to judicially review the decision to keep the probe within the remit of a Stormont-commissioned body.
But opening his challenge, Ashley Underwood QC argued the ongoing Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry sitting in Banbridge, Co Down lacks the power to properly scrutinise the “appalling, systematic abuse” Mr Hoy suffered at Kincora Boys Home.
He said: “There’s now substantial evidence that the Security Service were condoning that, they knew of it and made use of it so as to blackmail the abusers and prevent some of the abusers being brought to book at the time.”
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