Police call for ‘collusion’ public inquiries to be suspended

PUBLIC inquiries into three Northern Ireland killings involving alleged official collusion should be suspended while experts review ways of dealing with the past, senior police said yesterday.

The Superintendents’ Association said hearings into the controversial loyalist and republican assassinations should be put in deep freeze.

Robin Eames, who retired as Archbishop of Armagh six months ago, and Denis Bradley, the former priest and community mediator who was the first vice-chairman of the Policing Board, will decide if a Truth Commission similar to that set up in South Africa should be established or whether some other route to dealing with the hurt should be used.