"No" to Amnesty
13 February 2012
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
"The suggestion yesterday by outgoing Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, of an amnesty on 'historic crimes' is preposterous.
"On top of the devastation of early releases and the official thwarting of the pursuit of justice by exempting decommissioned weapons from forensic examination, this would be an unbearable imposition on innocent victims and yet another victory and reward for those who made them victims.
"However much justice has been mutilated by the iniquituous Belfast Agreement, the remaining hope of seeing perpetrators in the dock must not be removed from victims. Amnesty is a one-sided reward for murder and must not be contemplated."
