Home Secretary decision on Hillsborough
Home Secretary decision on Hillsborough paves the way for collusion families -
Responding to news that British Home Secretary Jaqui Smith MP has intervened to have secret files relating to the Hillsborough Disaster made public and available to the families of those bereaved Relatives for Justice Director Mark Thompson said: 'RFJ have a long association of solidarity with relatives of...read more  |
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Thirty years for teenage murders of David McIlwaine
Thirty years for teenage murders
A man has been jailed for at least 30 years for the murders of two teenagers in County Armagh nine years ago. 28-year-old Steven Leslie Brown, also known as Steven Revels, murdered teenagers David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb in February 2000. On Friday, the judge said they "ranked amongst the most gruesome murders of the past 40 years in Northern Ireland"....read more |
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'We want to know the truth' - Interview with Martin
Interview with RFJ Board Memeber Martin Mallon By Chris Summers BBC News Roseanne Mallon, a 76-year-old spinster, was one of more than 3,600 people killed during the Troubles. On Wednesday the Eames Bradley Report will include plans for dealing with the legacy of these deaths. You might expect a 76-year-old woman being shot dead as she sat watching television at her home in the countryside to be a...read more |
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Statement on Chief Constable's decision to deploy
Relatives for Justice Families considering legal challenge to Chief Constable's decision to deploy 'special forces'
Speaking on news that the PSNI Chief Constable is to deploy 'special forces' Relatives for Justice Director Mark Thompson issued the following statement;
'The policy decision to deploy 'special forces' is a matter of policing policy and therefore, under Section 6 of the NI...read more |
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Ballymurphy Massacre Families to meet with SoS
Relatives of those killed by the British army and the RUC to meet with SoS Shaun Woodward MP at Hillsborough
The family of Pearse Jordan, unarmed IRA Volunteer killed by the RUC on November 25th 1992, and relatives of 11 civilians killed by the British Army's Parachute Regiment during internment 1971 in Ballymurphy will today hold separate meetings with the British Secretary of State Shaun...read more |
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Press Release by Mark Thompson 20/02/2009
Statement from Mark Thompson Director of Relatives for Justice concerning today's suspended sentences to PSNI civilian worker and Randalstown loyalist Aaron Hill and his associate Randalstown UVF member Darren 'Bubbles' Richardson. Richardson was arrested in April 2007 at his workplace Wright Bus Ballymena whilst in possession of a quantity of ammunition and 117 personal details concerning 67...read more |
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