Sinn Fein could ensure Northern Bank heist convictions - Allister
10 October 2008
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister MEP:-
“Sinn Fein, above all others, could ensure convictions of the Northern Bank robbers, because it was their IRA which carried it out. But, of course, their phoney, selective and supposed support for the rule of law is secondary to their determination to protect their own. Likewise, in the brutal murder of Robert McCartney.
I have little doubt but that senior Sinn Fein figures could greatly help the police, if they told all they knew about these high profile crimes.
What a scandal that the IRA got away with £26million and their political acolytes sit smirking in government – put there by those who at one time made return of all their “ill-gotten gains” a pre-requisite to Sinn Fein getting anywhere near power in Northern Ireland. On the very first day of the St Andrews Conference Ian Paisley beat this drum and William McCrea and others oft repeated it in the House of Commons and elsewhere, but now Sinn Fein don’t even have to work government, and they still enjoy every penny of their ill-gotten gains.
Little wonder the Northern Bank robbery still epitomises the unfitness of Sinn Fein for government and the roll-over weakness of those who let them in.”
