Julian O'Neill
Crime and Justice Correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland at BBC
BBC NI crime and justice correspondent. Mostly do news tweets.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Julian O'Neill
The suspended chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, Will Kerr, is not to be prosecuted over allegations of sexual offending and misconduct in office. The allegations related to his time at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said after careful consideration, the evidence was "insufficient" to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction.
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bbc.com | Julian O'Neill
Julian O'NeillBBC News NI crime and justice correspondentThere is no evidence the security service, MI5, intentionally withheld documents from a major investigation into the agent in the IRA known as Stakeknife, a review has concluded. It was conducted after material was discovered in 2024.. Hundreds of documents were found by MI5 after Operation Kenova published its interim report into the activities of Stakeknife, who was west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Julian O'Neill
The Irish government has agreed a co-operation arrangement with the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which had been expected, was signed off at a cabinet meeting in Dublin. Twenty-nine people, including a woman expecting twins, died in the 1998 Real IRA attack, which was carried out from the Irish Republic. The MoU will allow the inquiry access to material held by the Irish government. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe inquiry secretary, Sam Hartley, welcomed the agreement.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Julian O'Neill
Julian O'NeillBBC News NI crime and justice correspondentThe Irish government has agreed a co-operation arrangement with the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which had been expected, was signed off at a cabinet meeting in Dublin. Twenty-nine people, including a woman expecting twins, died in the 1998 Real IRA attack, which was carried out from the Irish Republic. The MoU will allow the inquiry access to material held by the Irish government.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Julian O'Neill
Julian O'NeillBBC News NI crime and justice correspondentPolice failed to make a connection between a rifle recovered by officers in 1988 and the sectarian murder of two Catholics weeks earlier, a report by the Police Ombudsman has found. Seamus Morris, 18, and Peter Dolan, 25, died in the attack in Ardoyne.
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