DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton has broken unprecedented ground by apologising to the husband of a woman fatally injured in a crash in which the State failed to prosecute for alleged driving offences.

FOR the second time in a week, the Director of Public Prosecutions is mired in controversy over his failure to explain why no prosecution was instituted in a case now causing widespread public concern.

PARENTS of a five-year-old girl left partially paralysed after getting caught up in a violent Traveller feud want the Minister for Justice to explain why the person responsible will not stand trial.