Kincora scandal: Sex abuse victim wins right to pursue claims of MI5 collusion

‘A victim of child sex abuse at the notorious Kincora boys’ home in Belfast has been granted permission to launch a legal challenge over the Government’s refusal to carry out a fully inquiry, amid allegations of collusion by MI5.

The decision to exclude attacks carried out at Kincora from the UK-wide inquiry into historical sex abuse, set to be chaired by the New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard, will now be subjected to a judicial review.

This will scrutinise the official decision to confine examination of events at the home during the Troubles to a Northern Ireland-based investigation lacking the power to compel witnesses to appear and obtain documents from agencies such as MI5.’

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