NORTHERN IRELAND
Birmingham Mail
BYJEANETTE OLDHAM
21 FEB 2017
A former West Midlands Police officer has accused victims of institutional childhood abuse of LYING to a Government inquiry to win compensation.
Labour Party activist Bernard McEldowney is due to stand for the Bromsgrove ward of Woodvale in the county council elections in May.
But the retired police inspector has sparked fury in Northern Ireland after attacking a Government inquiry looking at the institutional abuse of children, dating back decades.
Mr McEldowney claims the inquiry was ‘hijacked’ by people who lied to win compensation, including former residents of St Joseph’s Children’s Home in Londonderry – where he was a resident.
The home was one of 22 institutions investigated by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), which looked at abuse allegations dating back decades.
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