NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Rebecca Black
PUBLISHED
12/04/2016
A key witness in the Kincora child abuse scandal says he will not give evidence to the Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland.
Roy Garland has claimed the Banbridge-based Hart Inquiry cannot find the answers for generations of victims who suffered abuse at Kincora Boys Home in east Belfast because it does not have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence.
Last week the High Court refused an application by a Kincora victim for a judicial review of Secretary of State Theresa Villier’s decision not to include the former home in the more powerful UK-wide Goddard inquiry.
Mr Garland said the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry (HIA) asked him to attend and he agreed on the premise it was a “serious inquiry”. Now, after voicing disappointment at the refusal to include Kincora in the Goddard inquiry, Mr Garland said he will not give evidence to the HIA.
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