The head of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland (PFNI) said on Wednesday that no one should be above the law. She has backed calls for military veterans of the Northern Irish conflict to be covered by amnesty from prosecution. On legacy and mainly Tory-led demands for a military amnesty, Lindsay told the PFNI’s annual conference in Belfast: “There cannot be two different evidential thresholds. Last month, Mordaunt said serving and retired troops should be covered by an amnesty that included conflicts stretching from Iraq and Afghanistan all the way back 50 years to the start of the Northern Ireland Troubles. So far, the government and the Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, have resisted military veterans and their supporters’ demands for a blanket amnesty for troops in both present and past wars.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2019 10:31 UTC