Pressure grows on British govt over OTRs' Bill

Rank and file police officers today heightened pressure on the British government to scrap plans for fugitive terrorist killers to be allowed back into the North without facing jail.

After Sinn Féin dramatically withdrew support for the so-called on-the-runs legislation, because it would grant an amnesty to police and soldiers involved in murder during the Troubles, the Police Federation for Northern Ireland found itself in unlikely agreement with republicans.