NORTHERN IRELAND
The Guardian
Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent
Tuesday 7 April 2015
The next home secretary must include the Kincora boys’ home scandal in the Westminster paedophile inquiry, according to a leading politician in east Belfast, where the abuse took place.
Naomi Long, who is deputy leader of the Alliance party and battling to retain her Belfast East seat in the general election, also called on Tuesday for victims of the Ulster loyalist paedophile ring to report their claims that Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers threatened boys for speaking out about the abuse to Northern Ireland’s police ombudsman.
There have been persistent claims from boys abused at Kincora and human rights organisations that military intelligence and the RUC knew about the rape of children in care but used the information to blackmail the paedophiles, forcing them to spy on fellow loyalists.
The Alliance MP’s call comes as a victim of abuse at Kincora speaks out on Tuesday night’s Channel 4 News alleging that he was taken from the east Belfast home to London where he was molested by members of a VIP paedophile ring.
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