Subject:  Legal row over IRA man's death |
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Dáithí
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Date Posted: 19:58:46 01/09/02 Wed
There is a legal row in the North over the inquest into a police shooting of an IRA man nearly ten years ago. Kenneth Jordan, 22, was shot dead by undercover RUC officers on the Falls Road in west Belfast in November 1992, and it has since been bitterly disputed about how and why he was killed. The RUC said it believed he was armed and on a bombing mission posing a threat to life. However, Mr Jordan’s family claim he was ambushed and executed while unarmed. The European Court on Human Rights said the British Government must change its inquest rules as it judged last May that they failed to investigate the killing adequately. The lawyer for the dead man’s family is also claiming that the British Government has failed to comply with the inquest procedures. Under the ruling the British Government must change the inquest procedures but so far has failed to do so.
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