Originally Posted by Mr Angry

Here's a very interesting point regarding the statement “This means that crucial forensic evidence, pivotal to securing convictions, cannot even be obtained, let alone used in court. As a result, the chance of victims’ families getting justice in the form of a criminal conviction is low and getting lower.”

That point is that there were dozens, if not hundreds, of successful prosecutions for terrorist murders in Northern Ireland where ballistics evidence was not "crucial” to conviction. What has suddenly changed? Why this sudden urgency & will to move on and "forget" the past on the part of our judiciary? Anyone would think they are trying to avoid something.



This has been mooted (most voiciferously by Sinn Fein) many, many times and dismissed each time by the principal Unionist / Loyalist parties. I don't know that we'll ever get to the bottom of a lot of what went on but there are a lot of people, on various sides, who will do their level best to stop the truth coming out.