NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
17 FEBRUARY 2015
Abuse victims of a notorious boys’ home in Belfast will today mount a legal challenge against the Government’s refusal to order a statutory inquiry into the crimes committed there.
A brutal paedophile ring abused boys from the Kincora home in east Belfast during the 1970s.
While three staff members were convicted in 1981, it has long been alleged that well-known figures in the British establishment – including senior politicians – were also involved.
Moreover, it has been claimed that the UK security services knew about the crimes but did nothing to stop them, instead using the knowledge to blackmail and extract intelligence from influential men who were committing abuse.
Last year, the Government rejected calls for Kincora to be included in the terms of its wide-ranging inquiry into child abuse – which is now being chaired by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard.
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