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NI: UDR Men Released

01 September 1992

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Three of the UDR 4, Winston Allen, Noel Bell and James Hogan, were released by the Appeal Court in Belfast on 29 July. The case had gone back to the Court following ESDA tests which showed that interview notes had been rewritten and false authentications appended to the notes by senior police officers. The tests made it clear, the judgement states, that police officers gave untruthful evidence at the trial There was a reasonable doubt, therefore, as to the reliability of the confessions which were the only evidence against the three acquitted men. In the case of Noel Latimer, however, the Court had eye witness evidence as well as a confession to consider. Although one witness claimed that the gun man she saw was definitely not Latimer, the Court accepted other eye witness evidence suggesting otherwise. Campaigners who include Ian Paisley jnr will continue to fight for Latimer's release.

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