NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Alan Erwin
PUBLISHED
14/11/2015
A woman abused at a children’s home up to 80 years ago would have been awarded £27,500 in damages but for delays in bringing her action, a High Court judge ruled.
Una Irvine claimed she was hit with a stick with nails in it for stealing apples as part of physical and psychological cruelty endured at Nazareth Lodge in Belfast.
Despite deciding the 85-year-old was subjected to a “harsh and uncaring regime”, Mr Justice Colton dismissed her case on the grounds of being statute barred.
He held there was no discretion to the limitation period and could not identify any reasons for an “extraordinary” delay of more than half a century.
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