Call to review jury trials in the North to avoid intimidation

THE use of non-jury trials in the North needs to be looked into as soon as possible, peace process watchdogs yesterday warned.

The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) said it would be wrong to wait for two years for the already planned review of the controversial system.

The report said London had finished its demilitarisation agenda, with a peacetime garrison of 4,275 troops marking the ending of the British army’s 38-year military operation in the North last July.