Troubles prosecutions: Government to explore how to halt live cases
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Stormont Party leaders will meet with NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis on Friday to discuss legacy plans.The government wants to explore ways to halt live court proceedings in Troubles-related cases.This would affect both former Army personnel as well as ex-paramilitaries.The PPS has said its work continues as normal in the absence of new legislation, which the government intends to introduce later this year.Both suspects have been granted anonymity.
"There have clearly shredded the Stormont House Agreement and delivered an incredibly cruel and shameless body blow to victims and survivors across this island and beyond," she told RTE.Soldier B's case relates to the death of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty in Londonderry in July 1972. The PPS found there were "related evidential features" between this case and those of soldiers B and F meaning there was no reasonable prospect of "key evidence" being used in their trials.
Mr Lewis added it was "the best way to help Northern Ireland move further along the road to reconciliation". "We will continue to take decisions on cases submitted to us by investigating agencies and, where decisions to prosecute have been taken, we will seek to bring those cases to trial." James Fox, accused of murdering postal worker Frank Kerr during an IRA robbery at a sorting office in 1994
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