Stevens Report - Blair must keep pledge on inquiry

The suggestion

Sat, 19 Apr, 2003 - 01:00

UUP leader David Trimble, in the wake of the devastating disclosures the Stevens Report, that the British Parliament should hold an inquiry into how widespread collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and security forces in the North was allowed to occur is nothing other than a disingenuous gesture.

Mr Trimble would rather that Westminster's all-party Parliamentary Intelligence Committee, which sits in private, could examine what happened.

It is not surprising that he rejected calls for a full judicial investigation into the circumstances of the murders of Pat Finucane and Brian Lambert, and would prefer to have any inquiry held behind closed doors.