Prosecutors have handled just 19 legacy case files, more than half involving the military, since a new police unit was set up six years ago, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
Only five cases out of an overall total of 953 involving 1,184 deaths are currently being probed by the PSNI s Legacy Investigation Branch (LIB), while nine are under review .
Nine people have been charged since January 2015 - six former members of the Army, two republicans and a single loyalist, currently on trial. There have been no convictions since the cases were transferred to the unit from the Historical Enquiries Team. We recognise that the existing system does not satisfy everyone and we would welcome any attempts to better meet the needs of those who lost loved ones, the LIB s head, Detective Chief Superintendent Rowan Moore, said last night.
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Thanks to Georgina Sinclair, Feargal Cochrane, and Tim French for their help with this briefing (all mistakes are the authors’ own).
In the first half of 2020, the Oxford Research Group (ORG) held a series of four face-to-face and online roundtables to understand the risks and challenges remote warfare could present over the next five years and how the Integrated Review could address them.
Three key questions emerged:
How should the UK respond to threats?
How should the UK measure the success of military interventions?
This briefing seeks to address the third of these questions. You can read the first of the three briefings here and the second one here.
Updated: 18 Dec 2020, 19:49
GLOBAL superpowers are creating the next generation of super soldier that could be bred like cattle to kill.
Experts told The Sun Online how DNA manipulation, bionic augmentation, and advanced robotics could all soon become commonplace on the battlefield.
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It comes as France became one of the first countries to announce it is openly developing augmented soldiers .
And meanwhile, Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, John Radcliffe, claimed China has already conducted tests on soldiers with the aim of developing biologically enhanced soldiers.
He warned there are no ethical boundaries in Beijing s efforts to create the world s first real super soldiers.
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood BOURNEMOUTH East MP Tobias Ellwood faces scrutiny over his attendance at a London gathering of 27 people which was described as a ‘Christmas Party’ on the organiser’s website. Mr Ellwood gave a speech at the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC) event in the Cavalry and Guards Club in Piccadilly on Tuesday. The Conservative MP told the Daily Mail it was a “business meeting”, which is permitted under Tier 2 rules. I would not be attending a Christmas party, it was a business meeting, said Mr Ellwood. I went there to meet business people and that is what it was. The club went to extreme lengths so that as a business function it was absolutely Covid-compliant.
Home Secretary Priti Patel was asked about Mr Ellwood’s decision to attend the event. Asked by ITV News if his actions were an “egregious” breach of the rules, Ms Patel said: “Well, it is. Of course it is exactly that. “Having dinner outside of the rules with a large number of people is a breach of the regulations.” Asked if there should be a punishment, Ms Patel said: “There are fixed penalty notices. I don’t know the details as to where this happened or the location, but I’m sure, as it is a breach, that will be followed up.”