RFJ welcomes today’s decision by the Belfast High Court granting leave for Teresa Jordan, mother of Pearse Jordan, to challenge significant failings by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to properly examine and apply the test for prosecution in respect of two former RUC members involved in Pearse’s killing.
The referrals were made by the coroner in 2016 after he found that the evidence from both officers was inconsistent and unconvincing.
The coroner, at the time, further believed that the officers had tampered with logs immediately after the killing and in doing so possibly also committed perjury in an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
Pearse Jordan was gunned down by a covert unit of the RUC in November 1992 on the Falls Road, Belfast.
An undercover car blocked the path of the car Pearse was driving. As he exited the car he was in he was shot.
Pearse was unarmed and posed absolutely no threat to anyone.
Immediately after the killing the RUC claimed he was armed, further claiming the car Pearse was driving contained a bomb.
Both of these claims were false.
Our thoughts tonight are with Teresa and Pearse’s brother Matt who have fought an incredible fight for truth and justice since 1992.
