UK government told police that interviewing Martin McGuinness 'would not be a good idea', committee told

A senior police investigator was prevented from questioning Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness about the Enniskillen bombing after the British government advised it “would not be a good idea”, a Westminster committee has been told.

A victims campaigner made the claim during an evidence session of a UK select committee inquiry probing how the British government handled efforts to gain compensation from Libya for IRA victims bereaved or injured by bombs manufactured with explosives provided by the late Colonel Gaddafi.