Calls to investigate Sinn Féin over role in scheme
The Democratic Unionists, Ulster Unionist, SDLP, and Traditional Unionist Voice all called for action in the wake of the revelation that the suspect was handed an assurance he was not being sought by the authorities in relation to the 2003 murder — even though the British government scheme for administering the letters was only supposed to cover crimes up until 1998. It was part of the peace process.
Mr O’Connor’s inquest was halted in Armagh yesterday after it emerged that Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly was the “conduit” through which the letter was delivered by the British government to the suspect in 2008.
