NORTHERN IRELAND
RTE News
Police investigations into the notorious Kincora boys’ home in East Belfast in the mid-1970s were “inept, inadequate and far from thorough”, the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry has found.
Inquiry chairman Sir Anthony Hart said authorities and police in Belfast were guilty of a “catalogue of failures” and said if a proper investigation had been undertaken many victims might have been spared.
However, long-standing allegations that a paedophile ring containing British establishment figures abused boys in the home in Belfast are not supported by credible evidence, the inquiry found.
It also dismissed claims that intelligence agencies were aware of such a ring and covered it up in order to blackmail the high-profile abusers.
Three staff members at Kincora were found guilty of abusing residents in the 1970s but there had long been rumours that others, including civil servants and businessmen, were involved.
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