NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Alan Erwin
PUBLISHED
30/04/2016
An abuse victim is to appeal his failed legal attempt to have claims that senior politicians, businessmen and high-level British state agents connived in a paedophile ring at a notorious Belfast care home examined by a Westminster inquiry.
Earlier this month the High Court dismissed Gary Hoy’s bid for a judicial review into the decision to keep the Kincora scandal probe within the remit of a Stormont-commissioned body.
But the 54-year-old’s legal team will now mount an urgent attempt to have that verdict overturned. Judges at the Court of Appeal yesterday listed the renewed challenge for a hearing next month.
Mr Hoy’s solicitor, Claire McKeegan of KRW Law, said later: “The applicant and all survivors of abuse at Kincora are vulnerable individuals and should not have to relive the trauma of that abuse by going through this process more than once.
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