Rising pressure on government to publish report on compensation for victims of Libya-IRA bombings

Rising pressure on government to publish report on compensation for victims of Libya-IRA bombings
Philip Bradfield
© The aftermath of the IRA bomb at Harrods department store in London in which six people were murdere...
The government has so far refused to publish the report, which it appointed William Shawcross to write. He submitted it to government in May 2020.
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh has said an “intolerable delay” in publication has left victims “feeling abandoned”.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has warned it may force the government to publish the document.
Victims of semtex supplied to the IRA have been campaigning for the UK government to press Libya to compensate them in line with sums it paid to French, German and US victims of terror attacks it carried out.

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