UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings

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UK security services were involved in secretly formulating the Legacy Act that granted amnesty to soldiers and paramilitary members implicated in killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles. This revelation has caused anger among victims' groups critical of the legislation.

Revelation that policing and state agency figures were in secret policymaking group angers victims’ groups The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitiaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed. The presence of policing and state agency figures among a secret policymaking group involved in devising the act – a fact established through an investigation by Belfast-based newsletter the Detail and shared with the Guardian – has angered victims’ groups already critical of the legislation. Continue reading...