Paramilitary leader's father wins inquiry ruling

The father of a loyalist paramilitary leader gunned down in prison won a legal challenge against a decision to hold the inquiry into the killing under controversial legislation passed last year.

Paramilitary leader's father wins inquiry ruling

The father of a loyalist paramilitary leader gunned down in prison won a legal challenge against a decision to hold the inquiry into the killing under controversial legislation passed last year.

The High Court in Belfast ruled in favour of David Wright after he objected to the inquiry into his son Billy’s murder in the high security Maze Prison in December 1997 being held under the Inquiries Act 2005.

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