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Michael Howard refused to reopen PIRA prisoner cases despite evidence

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Dec
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1996
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Description

Home Secretary Michael Howard refused to reopen the cases of fourteen PIRA prisoners despite a critical report finding that scientific evidence from the forensic explosives laboratory may have been contaminated.

Source Information

Elliott, S., and W.D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, 1968-1999 (Belfast, Blackstaff 1999)