UUP leader questions inspectorate probe into PSNI’s handling of Storey funeral

Ulster Unionist Party leader, Steve Aiken, speaks to media outside the Stormont Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after a meeting with Taoiseach, Micheal Martin.

The Ulster Unionist Party leader has questioned the independence of a police inspectorate review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s handling of a large republican funeral during the pandemic.

Steve Aiken likened the probe by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to “marking the police service’s own homework”.