PPS no-prosecution decision in Operation Kenova
6 releases from 4 parties, 6 March 2024 to 8 March 2024.
Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication
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PPS must be capable of commanding cross-community confidence
DUP East Belfast MLA Joanne Bunting, who chairs the Assembly Justice Committee, says it is astonishing the PPS has brought no prosecutions from Operation Kenova despite nearly £40m spent, and calls for the service to be beyond suspicion of imbalance.
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SDLP Leader response to Operation Kenova Interim Report
SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP says the Operation Kenova interim report on agent Stakeknife exposes abductions, torture and murders by the IRA Internal Security Unit, and calls for specific apologies from the Republican Movement and British Government. He also calls for prosecutions and repeal of…
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Ulster Unionist Party comment on publication of interim Operation Kenova report
UUP MLA Mike Nesbitt responds to the interim Operation Kenova report, saying it will take time to consider in detail and that it highlights victims who never saw such investigation. He argues lessons must not be lost through statistics and says PIRA's internal security unit murders were brutal.
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Sir Jeffrey – “intelligence agencies rendered PIRA almost inoperable"
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP says lessons can be learned by the security services but urges people to remember why informers were needed, arguing agents infiltrated the PIRA to the point of rendering it almost inoperable. He questions the £40m cost of investigating one agent and criticises…
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Paisley - £40m would have been better spent on recruiting police…
DUP North Antrim MP Ian Paisley says the Operation Kenova Report was a waste of £40 million that should have funded police recruitment, accusing it of propping up a cover-up. He argues the IRA, not the UK government, should be held responsible for Freddie Scappaticci's killings.
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Operation Kenova a failure
TUV leader Jim Allister says Operation Kenova is a failure by Jon Boutcher's own standard, citing seven years, £40m and no prosecutions, and says the report fails to name Stakeknife. He rejects any equivalence between IRA killers and informer handlers, and says Kenova's attempt to share blame aids…
Parties with no matching press release found on their website
- Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
- Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (could not be checked), so a statement may have been missed.
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