NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A deputy director of MI5 has told the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry that it was 1980 before it became aware of child abuse at Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast.
The officer, known as 9004, gave evidence anonymously via video link.
He told Sir Anthony Hart’s panel it was “The first time we have unambiguous information” about the abuse.
Three senior ca
re workers at the home were jailed in 1981 for sexually abusing boys in their care.
Mainstream
One of those, William McGrath, was the leader of the loyalist organisation Tara.
Officer 9004 said they did have information on Tara in the 1970s, but it was largely a fringe group.
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