Does Troubles ‘amnesty’ show British Government contempt for Northern Ireland?
Eugene Oliver (right), a son of father-of-seven Tom Oliver, with family solicitor Darragh Mackin, during a fresh appeal for information relating to the murder of his father, on the 30th anniversary of his death. Tom Oliver was abducted, tortured, and brutally murdered by the IRA. His body was found in Co Armagh on July 19, 1991. Picture: Arthur Carron/PA Wire
In the early hours of a summer morning in 1991 Tom Oliver, a 43-year-old father of seven children, left his home in the border county of Louth in the Republic of Ireland to attend to a calving cow in a field on his farm in the Cooley mountains. Hours later, his body was found on a remote rural road across the border, in south County Armagh.
He had been shot in the head. The IRA claimed it had killed him, alleging that he had informed the security forces about arms it had stored on his land. According to them he was, in the ugly language of the time, “a tout”.
