NORTHERN IRELAND
Premier
Thu 03 Mar 2016
By Alex Williams
Approximately 50 victims of historical abuse in Northern Ireland have died in the eight years since a campaign for truth and remedy started, an advocate has claimed.
Margaret McGuckin from the Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (Savia) charity has criticised the Northern Ireland government for failing to provide interim compensation to victims before an ongoing inquiry had finished.
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry, being led by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart, is the UK’s largest inquiry into physical, emotional and sex abuse suffered by children at church, voluntary organisation and state-run children’s homes.
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