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NIO Minister Bail Move "hypocritical in the extreme"
22nd March 2004 --
The mother of murdered Belfast teenager Peter Mc Bride has described the
announcement by NIO Minister John Spellar that bail conditions for people
accused of serious offences are to be tightened as “hypocritical in the
extreme”. Speaking this morning Jean Mc Bride said,
“John Spellar has a cheek talking about when people accused of serious offences
should be released on bail. He sat on an Army Board and decided that two
soldiers who were convicted of murder should be given back their guns and
retained in his army. Murder is the most serious offence under law and those
convicted of murder are not even allowed to apply for a gun licence yet this
hypocrite handed Guardsmen Fisher and Wright back their guns. What right does he
have to make any announcements on criminal justice when he denied our family any
justice and thumbed his nose at the verdict of the courts here? If someone was
convicted of a drugs offence would he give them back their drugs and put them
back on the streets?”
On April 20/21 2004 the Mc Bride family will seek to overturn the MoD decision
to retain Guardsmen Fisher and Wright at Belfast High Court. On 11 March Peter
Mc Bride senior met with officials at the German Embassy in Dublin to highlight
the fact that the convicted murderers of his son were based at Oxford Barracks
in Muenster, Germany. Legal papers were delivered to embassy officials and these
are now being translated and passed on to the German Foreign and Defence
ministries. The Irish Government also contacted the German Embassy to reiterate
their support for the Mc Bride family.
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