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21/03/2008
Hamill Inquiry Won't Probe DPP
While claims that RUC officers in a parked Land Rover allegedly failed to intervene as a Portadown man was kicked to death by a loyalist mob over 10 years ago are still to be investigated, the inquiry's terms of reference are not to include the Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP).
It has emerged that the Northern Ireland Office has refused to extend the terms of reference for the inquiry into the death of Robert Hamill.
NIO Secretary of State Shaun Woodward has turned down the family's request to widen the scope of the investigation to include the actions of the Crown prosecution service.
Lawyers for the family wanted to question DPP staff. But 18 months after submitting their request Mr Woodward rejected it after taking detailed independent legal advice by David Perry QC.
Mr Woodward said there are "no justifiable grounds to extend the terms of reference".
However, the Hamill family was deeply disappointed by the decision, according to their solicitor Bara McGrory who said it was surprising in view of the fact that the inquiry itself made a similar request.
Nobody has ever been convicted of the murder in April 1997 when father-of-two Mr Hamill, 25 - a Catholic - was kicked to death by loyalists in the centre of Portadown, County Armagh.
(BMcC)
It has emerged that the Northern Ireland Office has refused to extend the terms of reference for the inquiry into the death of Robert Hamill.
NIO Secretary of State Shaun Woodward has turned down the family's request to widen the scope of the investigation to include the actions of the Crown prosecution service.
Lawyers for the family wanted to question DPP staff. But 18 months after submitting their request Mr Woodward rejected it after taking detailed independent legal advice by David Perry QC.
Mr Woodward said there are "no justifiable grounds to extend the terms of reference".
However, the Hamill family was deeply disappointed by the decision, according to their solicitor Bara McGrory who said it was surprising in view of the fact that the inquiry itself made a similar request.
Nobody has ever been convicted of the murder in April 1997 when father-of-two Mr Hamill, 25 - a Catholic - was kicked to death by loyalists in the centre of Portadown, County Armagh.
(BMcC)
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