The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. Towards a public inquiry? |
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http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3274152 Ahern
To Raise 2005-09-09
14:50:06+01 Foreign
Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern is to raise the 1976 loyalist murder of Seamus
Ludlow with the The
family of the 1976
had asked the Mr Ahern to find out why nobody was ever been prosecuted for the
crime. The
Government is still studying legal advice on the Barron report into the murder
and is expected to refer it to the Oireachtas Justice Committee in the near
future. A
spokesman for Mr Ahern said today: "The minister
has always insisted that the complete truth must come out in relation to the
entire Seamus Ludlow case. "He
will raise the matter with the Mr
Ahern is travelling to However
he is expected to raise the matter with Mr Hain soon after. The
Government is still considering the legal advice it got with the report by Mr
Justice Henry Barron into Mr Ludlow's murder. A
Government spokesperson: "The report will be brought to Cabinet in the
near future. "After
that it will go to an Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and
Women's Rights which will then publish it." The
inquest into Mr Ludlow's murder was told earlier this week that the then RUC
arrested and questioned four men in relation to the crime in 1998. Two
of them independently gave evidence of how and where the murder was committed
and admitted their role.
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