NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY REBECCA BLACK – 02 JUNE 2015
An ongoing inquiry into abuse at children’s homes lacks the powers to get to the bottom of what has been termed the systematic abuse of young boys at Kincora, the High Court has heard.
One victim of an alleged paedophile ring at the former Kincora Home for young boys in east Belfast, said new evidence of purported state collusion and cover-up of abuse must 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.
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.
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