North’s DPP apologises to women victims of alleged IRA abuse

The north’s Director of Public Prosecutions has apologised to three women who accused an alleged IRA member of abusing them as children, after a damning report criticised how his prosecution was handled.

The independent review by Sir Keir Starmer was also critical of how prosecutors dealt with additional accusations made by one of the women — Mairia Cahill —that she was subject to interrogation by the IRA in the wake of the alleged abuse.

The attempted prosecutions of Martin Morris for alleged sex abuse and IRA membership — and four others accused of IRA membership linked to the alleged republican cover-up — never got to trial as the women withdrew their evidence.