Northern Ireland - new material (5)
23 October 2000
Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 3 December 1992 for a report of the Inquiry into the circumstances the convictions arising out of the bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974: second report on the Maguire case Sir John May. (HMSO) 1992 pp96 12.10. The second and final report on the wrongful convictions of the Maguire family considers the original decision to prosecute and the handling by the Home Office of representations made over the years.
The general strip search in Maghaberry Women's Prison (Mourne House) - Monday March 2nd 1992 Christian Response to Strip Searching. 1993. Available from: CRSS Corrymeela House Upper Crescent Belfast BT17 1NT. Short report on the strip-search at Maghaberry that concludes that it was repugnant and thus quite unacceptable in this society or in any other.
Northern Ireland: the right of silence Amnesty International, February 1993 pp10. This report recommends that the government repeal the Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 under which those who exercise their right to remain silent during police questioning or during trial risk having inferences of guilt drawn against them.
Northern Ireland: fair trial concerns in Casement Park trials, Amnesty International. July 1993 pp10. This report calls for a wide-ranging independent inquiry into the events at Casement Park in March 1988 and calls for a review of the cases of those who have been wrongfully convicted. It also urges a review of the cases of Patrick Kane Sean Kelly and Michael Timmons.
Ireland's targeted generation Betsy Swart. Covert Action 45, 1993 pp46-53. Discusses the daily harassment and intimidation handed out to Nationalist youth in Coalisland Co Tyrone by the security forces. It focuses on the case of Barry O'Donnell who was excluded from England and suffered daily intimidation. He later joined the IRA and was executed by soldiers following an attack on an RUC base in the Coalisland.