SDLP opposes handing North security to MI5

The SDLP was today due to meet the head of the investigation into the raid on Special Branch offices in a top-security Belfast police station.

SDLP opposes handing North security to MI5

The SDLP was today due to meet the head of the investigation into the raid on Special Branch offices in a top-security Castlereagh police station.

Party leader Mark Durkan was to warn former British civil service chief, John Chilcott, that responsibility for intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland should not be passed to MI5, in the wake of the raid on March 17 this year.

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