Troubles ‘amnesty’ would not be acceptable in any modern democracy, MLAs told

Victims campaigners outside Parliament Buildings, Stormont (Sinn Fein/PA)

A proposed ban on Troubles prosecutions would not be acceptable in any other modern democracy in the world, the Stormont Assembly has been told.

MLAs returned from summer recess on Tuesday for an emergency sitting to debate the Government’s controversial plan to introduce a statute of limitations on crimes committed during the Northern Ireland conflict.