UVF victims’ families accuse Government of ‘disgraceful’ attempt to stop justice
by Jonathan McCambridge
Apr 26, 2024
4 minutes
Families of four loyalist murder victims have accused the Government of a “disgraceful attempt to stop justice being done” for threatening a legal challenge to a ruling at their inquests.
It came after a coroner said that he had been “prevented” from delivering a summary of intelligence information around the deaths of four people killed in two loyalist attacks in Co Tyrone in 1992 after Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris objected to it being delivered in open court.
Kevin McKearney, 32, was shot dead by a gunman inside his family-run butcher shop in the village of Moy, Co Tyrone, in January 1992. His
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