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Disabled peer condemns lack of help and says he 'might as well have been dead'

Lord Shinkwin says the pain of his operation was compounded by his ‘appalling’ treatment in the House of Lords. ....

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Mandelson urges consideration of plan to end all Troubles prosecutions


Mandelson urges consideration of plan to end all Troubles prosecutions
Nick Lester, PA Political Staff
20 July 2021, 11:11 pm
Controversial Government proposals to ban prosecutions for Troubles murders should be considered “on their merits, however painful it is”, former Northern Ireland secretary Lord Mandelson has told Parliament.
Given the remote possibility of cases being brought to trial, the Labour peer argued that those who carried out crimes were effectively “being shielded by the rule of law, not living in fear of it”.
As such it was “reasonable to weigh alternative approaches”, he said.
He made his comments in response to the contentious plan to introduce a statute of limitations on crimes committed during the Northern Ireland conflict up to April 1998 and would apply to military veterans as well as ex-paramilitaries. ....

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