Adams backs Bethany campaigners’ redress bid

SINN Féin leader Gerry Adams has written to Justice Minister Alan Shatter on behalf of a group of Protestant campaigners seeking to be compensated by the Government for abuse suffered in Government institutions.

The Bethany Home survivors, led by Derek Leinster, are seeking to be included in the remit of an Inter-Departmental Committee on the Magdalene Laundries.

In his letter, Mr Adams says the failure of the state to properly monitor and manage conditions in Bethany was exposed in reports by the Deputy Chief Medical Adviser in 1939.