"The last government's Legacy Act shut down police investigations and proposed immunity for terrorists. This left many families feeling they had nowhere to go to continue their search for justice, or simply for answers about what happened to their loved ones. Jarvis, a former member of the Parachute regiment who served in Northern Ireland, continued: This government's legislation will put that right."
"It guarantees no terrorist will be able to claim immunity from prosecution, while ensuring there is an effective and wholly independent legacy commission to conduct investigations that families right across the United Kingdom can have confidence in. The UK government says that if measures in its new Troubles bill become law, a reformed legacy commission would have enhanced powers enabling it to conduct full police investigations, where there is evidence of criminality. The immunity scheme would also be scrapped."
More than 70 people killed by the IRA and other paramilitaries died in unsolved attacks on English soil. The Home Office identified 77 unsolved killings from the Troubles era, including 39 British armed forces personnel, and said over 1,000 people were injured. The new Northern Ireland Troubles bill would scrap the previous immunity scheme and allow a reformed legacy commission enhanced powers to conduct full police investigations where there is evidence of criminality. The measures aim to prevent terrorists claiming immunity and to provide families with avenues to secure answers and potential justice.
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