Victims' daughter in legal challenge to commissioners
Feb. 26
A WOMAN who lost both her parents in the Shankill bomb yesterday lodged a legal challenge at the High Court in Belfast against the appointment of the four new victims' commissioners. He says he is convinced the action will succeed and he also hit out at the amount of money set aside to aid victims and what he claims is an attempt by the authorities to "blackmail" victims' groups into accepting the new commission. "If a large section of the victims are not prepared to deal with the commission given the language that has been used what good is the commission being there in the first place?" He denied the legal move would hold up help for victims as out of the 33 million claimed to have been allocated to victims, only 1.8 million was actually reaching victims' groups.
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