14/04/2014
Family To Sue Government Over Murder 'Collusion'
The family members of a woman who was murdered by loyalists 20 years ago have announced they intend to sue the government over alleged collusion.
Teresa Clinton was killed in a gun attack on her home in south Belfast in April 1994. It was later discovered the attack had been carried out by the UDA. Now High Court writs have been issued against the Ministry of Defence and the PSNI.
Mrs Clinton was 34 and at her house on the lower Ormeau Road when the gunmen smashed a window at her house and opened fire. It is suspected that the target was her husband Jim Clinton, a former Sinn Féin election candidate.
Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey said Mrs Clinton's family was "entitled to know the truth about British state collusion in her killing.
"For 20 years now Theresa Clinton's family has been denied the truth surrounding her killing. Collusion was a system of repression and terror employed by the British state in an attempt to break the will of the nationalist community. Clearly it went further than the loyalist gun gangs involved and their handlers.
"Theresa Clinton's family is entitled to know the truth about her murder. The British state should come clean rather than put her family through the ordeal of going to the courts."
(IT/JP)
Teresa Clinton was killed in a gun attack on her home in south Belfast in April 1994. It was later discovered the attack had been carried out by the UDA. Now High Court writs have been issued against the Ministry of Defence and the PSNI.
Mrs Clinton was 34 and at her house on the lower Ormeau Road when the gunmen smashed a window at her house and opened fire. It is suspected that the target was her husband Jim Clinton, a former Sinn Féin election candidate.
Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey said Mrs Clinton's family was "entitled to know the truth about British state collusion in her killing.
"For 20 years now Theresa Clinton's family has been denied the truth surrounding her killing. Collusion was a system of repression and terror employed by the British state in an attempt to break the will of the nationalist community. Clearly it went further than the loyalist gun gangs involved and their handlers.
"Theresa Clinton's family is entitled to know the truth about her murder. The British state should come clean rather than put her family through the ordeal of going to the courts."
(IT/JP)
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