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Gervaise McKerr Case:
House Of Lords To Be Heard Next Week
30th January 2004 --
On Monday and Tuesday of next week, the House of Lords will hear the leading
test case on the right to life and allegations of a shoot to kill policy adopted
by British security forces in Ireland. Gervaise McKerr was shot and killed by
the RUC along with Eugene Toman and Sean Burns on 11th November 1982. It is
accepted that although all three men were unarmed, a total of 109 rounds were
fired at the car they occupied. The outcome of this case will affect many
similar cases.
In May 2001, after lengthy court proceedings brought together with a number of
other families (Including that of Patrick Shanaghan, the Loughgall families and
Pearse Jordan), the European Court of Human Rights found that the British
Government were guilty of a breach of the families' right to life. In
particular, the court found that the investigation into the murder did not meet
international standards of openness, fairness and independence and was a breach
of Article 2 of the European Convention. The investigation had been conducted by
the RUC themselves, and was reviewed in the Stalker and Sampson reports which
were commissioned into the allegations of the shoot to kill policy, but were
then withheld from the public domain and the families concerned.
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