Northern Ireland’s public inquiry into child abuse at residential homes run by churches and the state will be judged on the extent to which it delivers truth and justice, campaigners
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The bill for compensating survivors of child abuse in Northern Ireland could run to £30 million, campaigners have warned. Some 524 victims could be eligible to make claims over their
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Police in Northern Ireland must do more to protect and support vulnerable victims of crime, inspectors have found. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) raised concerns with how the Police
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At least one MI6-run agent was aware of sexual abuse being committed in a notorious Belfast boys’ home, according to one of the agency’s historic intelligence documents. A classified MI6
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There was no evidence of paedophile or prostitution rings involving members of the establishment at Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland, a retired detective has said. The east Belfast home
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A former resident from Kincora Boys’ Home has described being stripped naked and sexually assaulted on his first day at the Belfast facility. The man, given the cipher HIA199/R3, broke
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Vulnerable children were sexually assaulted just weeks after arriving at Kincora Boys’ Home, a public inquiry has heard. Detailed and graphic accounts of a litany of abuse by staff members
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Kincora Boys’ Home closed on October 1, 1980 in the wake of the sex abuse scandal which broke in January of that year and resulted in the suspension of three
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Security chiefs at MI5 and MI6 have told a public inquiry there is no evidence they knew about or covered up child abuse at the former Kincora Boys’ Home. The
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Allegations of abuse at Kincora Boys’ Home will be examined when a long-running public inquiry reconvenes later. The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry will hear evidence from former residents of
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