JUDICIAL INQUIRY INTO THE DEATH OF ROBERT HAMILL

Early day motion 148, tabled 7 December 1999 by Kevin McNamara (Labour). Signed by 19 members.

That this House recalling that on 27th April 1997, Robert Hamill, a 25 year old Catholic, was attacked and killed in Portadown town centre by a large crowd whilst a Royal Ulster Constabulary land rover containing four armed officers was parked a few yards away and that despite the immediate availability of substantial police and army reinforcements, no suspects were detained for questioning on the night of the murder and officers failed to take statements or the names and addresses of witnesses to the murder who approached them at the scene and the murder scene was not sealed and no forensic evidence was gathered and no-one has ever been convicted of Robert Hamill's murder; supports the call of Amnesty International, the International Relations Committee of the United States Congress, the SDLP, Sinn Fein, Alliance and Women's Coalition political parties in Northern Ireland for an independent judicial inquiry under the Tribunal of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 to be held into the circumstances of Robert Hamill's murder.

Signatures by party: Labour 17, Conservative 1, Labour/Co-operative 1.