Coroner ‘prevented’ from delivering ruling on UVF deaths by Government challenge

Bernadette McKearney, widow of Kevin McKearney, holding pictures of her husband and her parents Charlie and Tess Fox (Liam McBurney/PA)

A coroner said that he has been prevented from delivering a “narrative” around the events surrounding of the murder of four people killed in two loyalist attacks in Co Tyrone in 1992 following a legal challenge from the Government to it being delivered in open court.

Judge Richard Greene KC also said he had reached a provisional view that an inquest into the four deaths cannot proceed because of the withholding of sensitive files from the proceedings on national security grounds.