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review into the letters issued to Republican On The Runs has found the | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
The Prime Minister commissioned a review led by Lady Justice Hallett | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
after the First Minister Peter Robinson threatened to resign. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The report found the letters were not an "amnesty" but there were | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
"significant systemic failures" in how the scheme operated. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The collapse of John Downey's trial Vincent Kearney reports. | :00:28. | :00:39. | |
The collapse of John Downey's trial sparked Unionist rage. There were | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
claims of a secret deal to give IRA members and the steeds. The first | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
minister threatened to withdraw from the Assembly unless there was an | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
enquiry. I am not prepared to be the ahead of the government that was | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
kept in the dark in this way. I wonder to be full disclosure, for | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
the people to know what has gone on. Lady Justice Hallett was -- | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
appointed to conduct a review into Republicans being told they would | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
not wanted by the police. In her reports today, she said the scheme | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
was unprecedented and flawed but was not unlawful and did not give | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
terrorist suspect an amnesty. That point was reinforced by the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Secretary of State at the House of Commons. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Lady Justice Hallett is very clear. She concludes that the scheme did | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
not amount to an amnesty for terrorist suspects. They were not | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
handed a get out of jail free cards. I repeat again today to the people | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
holding these letters, they will not protect you from arrest or | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
prosecution. Should the police succeeding gathering sufficient | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
evidence, you will be subject to due process of the law. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
The judge also rejected allegations that the scheme was a secret deal. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
The report says the scheme was kept below the radar due to its little | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
sensitivity, but it would be wrong to characterise it as secrets. The | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
report says dozens of police officers, prison officers and | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
politicians must have known that some kind of scheme was operating. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
It out that an interested party had kept a close eye on developments in | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Westminster and the press. They may have appreciated their was some kind | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
of scheme is not the precise details. John Downey's trial | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
collapsed because he was wrongly told he was not wanted by the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
police. The report says the PSNI was to blame for that the stake and for | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
not rectifying it when it later became aware that he was wanted in | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
connection with the Hyde Park bombing. The judge says nothing in | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
law or logic explains that these feelings -- failings. The report | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
says that two other letters were sent by mistake. In a statement, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Chief Constable repeated an apology from the PSNI. Ella Max Lady Justice | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Hallett does not offer a view on weather the letters sent should now | :02:59. | :02:59. | |
be rescinded. She said that decision should be | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
taken by the Secretary of State. The brother of one of the victims of | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
the Hyde Park bombing has said the On The Run scheme should have been | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
dealt with in a much more open way. 23 year old Anthony Daly was one | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
of four soldiers murdered I think when you have bad lack of | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
transparency, it leads to conspiracy as opposed to -- on a monumental | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
scale. This was purely an scheme telling people who would not wanted | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
that they were not wanted, if it had been done properly. If there was no | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
reason to hide, I don't understand why it was not dealt with more | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
transparently. Mark Devenport reports | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
on political reaction here. Peter Robinson threaten to design if | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
a judge was not appointed to get to the bottom of the on-the-runs | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
scandal. Now the report is complete, if you satisfied? | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
There is a heavy criticism of the Northern Ireland office for the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
systemic failures and I conclude very readily from my point of view | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
that this scheme was wrong in principle and shambolic in practice. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Both Unionist leaders claimed that the report claims their view -- | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
backs up their view that the on-the-runs scheme was a clandestine | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
manoeuvre by the government. Lady Hallett said the scheme was | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
very involved. It was done through the process of the British Attorney | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
General and the bps. Far from it being secrets, she also notes that | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Sinn Fein on a continuous basis have pushed for a public manifestation of | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
dealing with the issue of on-the-runs. It was raised on a | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
continual basis. Old men Unionist parties insisted | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
that they would not negotiate about the legacy of the Troubles until | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
after the report was published. Since then, they have both walked | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
out of interparty talks over the parading issue. Even though we have | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
this issue -- this report, it is not clear which way the political | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
process will go in the coming weeks. Whatever happens, there is still a | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
responsibility of the five Executive parties to deal with the three | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
outstanding issues. We cannot move forward as a society unless we | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
resolve issues dealing with flags and parades and, most particularly, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
dealing with the issues of the past. Until we do that, we will not be in | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
a position to take this society forward | :05:40. | :05:40. | |
Alliance and the Nationalists want interparty talks to resume as soon | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
as Sybil, but Peter Robinson says if negotiations ever recommends, they | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
must not be an attempt to browbeat Unionists into accepting the Haass | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
proposals they have already rejected. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
Today was the last day you could tax your car or get a driving licence | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
by going to a local office of the Driver and Vehicle Agency.The | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
The change has cost about three hundred people here their jobs, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Unions say that their arguments for keeping the offices here were | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
I have reticulated all the arguments, highlighted all the | :06:14. | :06:28. | |
issues. We have made our case to retain the service here, to keep | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
those jobs. Yet they really dismiss the case, they dismissed the | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
argument. In doing that they really dismissed Northern Ireland, the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
people of Northern Ireland. Golf now and Rory McIlroy leads | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
the Open golf championship by one He recorded a a first round of | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
six under par at Royal Liverpool. Delighted with his day's works, Rory | :06:44. | :06:58. | |
McIlroy headed to the clubhouse after a memorable opening round. He | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
had reduced a near flawless exhibition of golf -- produced. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Showing some of the form which has already helped him captured two | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
major championships. The Hollywood man has his ice firmly fixed on | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
another. He broke in six effortless Birdy pats. Even when he found | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
trouble, his magical touch did not let him down. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
trouble, his magical touch did not Any time you can show it | :07:36. | :07:36. | |
trouble, his magical touch did not bogey free round in the first day, | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
you are going to take it. I'm really happy with that. It sets me up for a | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
great week. The challenge for tomorrow is to try | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
to end a string of disappointing performances. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
And in football there were three games tonight in the Europa League | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Linfield had a one-nil victory over AIK of Stockholm at Mourneview Park | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Derry City lost one nil to Belarussian side Shakhtyor Salihorsk | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Crusaders went down 4-nil in Stockholm to Bromma Poykarna. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
Now here to tell us if the good weather is likely to | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Good evening. The weather is going to turn unsettled over the next | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
couple of days, with showers and the risk of thunder. No such problems | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
tonight, a dry nights. Quite warm with temperatures slow to fall and | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
may not drop lower than 15 degrees. A fairly madly nights. That will | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
mean a human to feel to the air tomorrow. Humid air often means the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
risk of thundery showers. In the morning, many places dry with | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
sunshine, especially towards the north coast. The showers low in from | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
the east. To the south, and fair chance of some thundery downpours. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
In the Irish midlands, there will be some sunshine in between with | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
temperatures reaching the mid-20s. Plenty of orange on the map due to | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the high temperatures across many areas of England. The low 30s, he | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
really sticky day apart -- across parts of south-east England. Only | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
the mid-teens out towards north-east Scotland. Quite a contrast from | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
north to south. Northern Ireland is falling in the middle. Temperatures | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
in the low 20s across parts of the West. Not just as warm as today but | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
quite humid and sticky at times. Showers around which could be heavy | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
and thundery in places, with the risk of lightning. To look towards | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the East Coast with an easterly breeze. Saturday, not so many | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
showers around. Some dry and bright weather. There is the risk of some | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
thundery showers towards the east coast. Some sharp showers around on | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
Sunday but also some warm sunshine. You can keep up to date with | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
News Online and follow this from the top of our heads | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
to the edge of space. But in those few miles lies one of | :09:55. | :10:15. | |
the greatest wonders of the world. | :10:16. | :10:20. |