Chief Constable: '˜I am 100% convinced that the RUC had no knowledge of the Shankill Bombing'
Chief Constable George Hamilton has dismissed claims that the RUC had advanced warning of the Shankill bombing.
Speaking at an event at Queen’s University in Belfast last night (Tuesday) Mr Hamilton said he was “100% convinced that the police service at the time had no knowledge of the Shankill bombing that could have prevented it from happening”.
“That statement will be tested, investigated and found to be right or otherwise by the Police Ombudsman, in whom I have full confidence, and I can also assure people tonight that the Ombudsman will have full cooperation from us in relation to the investigation that they will need to conduct around the allegations that have been made in the press recently,” he added.
Mr Hamilton spoke out after an Irish News report that the IRA leader who planned the 1993 Shankill bomb was working as a police informer.
Nine Protestant civilians were killed in the 1993 attack in Belfast, as well as one of the IRA bombers.