'I still have nightmares' - 'Hooded man' Frank McGuigan on his 1971 internment in Northern Ireland

'I still have nightmares' - 'Hooded man' Frank McGuigan on his 1971 internment in Northern Ireland

Francis McGuigan, one of the 14 ‘Hooded’ men, speaking in Belfast after the UK Supreme Court ruled that a Police Service of Northern Ireland decision in 2014 to discontinue an investigation into allegations of controversial interrogation techniques should be quashed. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

One of the “hooded men” has told how he still suffers nightmares about the ordeal he suffered 50 years ago.

Francis McGuigan was one of 14 men who were subjected to a series of controversial interrogation techniques by the Army and police when they were interned without trial in Northern Ireland in 1971.

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