Rev Ivan Foster: Ian Paisley is unable to reply to these slanderous allegations against him

In response to the headline in Friday’s edition of your newspaper:

Police had evidence Ian Paisley paid for Troubles bombing, says ex-colonel

If the RUC District Inspector had evidence Dr Paisley funded bombing, why did police not press charges against him?placeholder image
If the RUC District Inspector had evidence Dr Paisley funded bombing, why did police not press charges against him?

May I just ask the obvious question —

Did ‘Colonel Blimp’ pursue this matter?

The Rev Ivan Foster, a retired Free Presbyterian minister and one-time close associate of Dr Ian Paisleyplaceholder image
The Rev Ivan Foster, a retired Free Presbyterian minister and one-time close associate of Dr Ian Paisley

Why did with the RUC District Inspector he refers to, not press charges against Dr Paisley, pictured, on the basis of this evidence?

If police were in receipt of this information and did not act, at the very least this would appear to me to be a most serious dereliction of duty!

Of course, on the other hand, it might just look like a case of throwing around slanderous allegations in the certain knowledge that the person maligned being dead, there will be no comeback!

Rev Ivan Foster (Retired), Kilskeery

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