Double standards in approaches to Brady suicide and Wright murder unacceptable - TUV
27 October 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:
"A prisoner commits suicide in a police station and officers face discipline; a prisoner is murdered in the Maze, with judicial findings of a litany of failings which facilitated the murder, and the man in charge is promoted to one of the highest paid jobs in the land!
"The stance being taken at the behest of the Ombudsman in Londonderry contrasts so sharply with the total failure to discipline anyone over the Billy Wright murder, that I have to ask, again, why is Alan Shannon still Permanent Secretary of DEL given the devasting findings against him by Lord MacLean?
"I raised this matter over a month ago with the Head of the Civil Service and with the Personnel Minister, including the question of whether Mr Shannon was paid bonuses during while Chief Executive of the prison service, but all there has been from Stormont is a deafening silence. See http://www.jimallister.org/default.asp?blogID=2059
"It really is time the powers that be faced up to these issues, particularly now that police officers are to be pursude over the self inflicted death of John Brady."
