NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
By Kevin Sharkey
BBC News NI
A former military officer contradicted his own claims about the murder of a Belfast schoolboy in 1973, an inquiry has heard.
Colin Wallace worked for the Army in Northern Ireland between 1971 and 1974.
On Wednesday, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry saw a document, from 1982, in which it is claimed he alleged the cover-up of the murder of Brian McDermott.
The document linked the murder to a paedophile ring at Kincora Boys’ Home.
The inquiry into historical child sex abuse is examining allegations relating to the former home in east Belfast.
On Wednesday, the inquiry heard Mr Wallace had claimed “a cover-up of the Kincora ring was preventing the killers of 10 year-old Brian McDermott from being apprehended”.
However in 2004, the former army press officer made a statement to the police in which he said: “I had no knowledge that would have linked anyone from the Kincora investigation to the murder of Brian McDermott.”
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