NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish News
An abuse victim is to appeal his failed legal attempt to have claims that senior politicians, businessmen and 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 to judicially review the decision to keep the probe into the Kincora scandal within the remit of a Stormont-commissioned body.
But his legal team are now to 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.
“They are entitled to an investigation which has the powers to get to the truth. An urgent appeal has been lodged seeking to achieve exactly that.”
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