'Perpetrator-friendly and perpetrator-focused' – Victims' group condemns UK government's Troubles legacy bill 

Jennifer McNern who survived a bombing in Belfast in 1972. Picture: Alan Lewis/ PohotpressBelfast via PA

The UK government’s proposed bill to deal with Northern Ireland’s troubled past is “perpetrator-friendly and perpetrator-focused”, the head of a victims’ group has said.

Sandra Peake, of the Wave Trauma Centre, said victims and survivors are fearful of the ramifications of the proposed immunity for information deal which has been mooted.