North inquiries cost more than £5m per year

Police in the North are spending more than £5m (€5.77m) a year to service public inquiries into controversial killings during the Troubles, the region’s chief constable revealed today.

Hugh Orde said the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s £100,000 (€115,000) a week costs were in addition to £250m (€288m)of taxpayers’ money that has already been spent on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and three other independent probes into contentious incidents during the conflict.