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NI: N Ireland:Norney can challenge parole

01 July 1995

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Republican prisoners including Paul Norney, the longest serving Irish republican prisoner in the UK, won leave to challenge what they described as "irrational and unreasonable" parole board delays after arguing that, having completed the 20-year tariff on their discretionary life sentence imposed for retribution and deterrence, they should be entitled to immediate parole hearings. The court heard that, since the IRA ceasefire, the men could no longer be detained as a danger to the public and their rights were being violated by their continuing detention, and judge Owen agreed that they had an arguable case against the parole board. Independent 22.7.95

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