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Alan Erwin

McGurk's Bar bomb attack report quashed "in its entirety" as judge rules findings "illogical"

A contentious police report into the McGurk’s Bar bomb atrocity is to be quashed in its entirety, a High Court judge ruled today.

Mr Justice Humphreys ordered complete binning of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET)’s review because findings within it of no bias in the original RUC investigation were irrational.

He said: “It is not possible to remedy this legal wrong by mere excision.”

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