Police did not collude with Robert Hamill attackers, inquiry finds

Police did not collude with Robert Hamill attackers, inquiry finds An inquiry into the sectarian execution of Robert Hamill has found that constabulary officers who were in a conveyance adjacent the onslaught did not condone or collude with the attackers. The report, published Monday, highlighted several wrongful omissions in the subsequent execution probe, including a failure to properly hunt the location of a cardinal suspect. Robert Hamill was 25 when he died after he was beaten by loyalists in Portadown, County Armagh, in 1997. The inquiry concluded in 2009 and its study was completed in 2011, but the findings could not be published until 3 prosecutions successful transportation with the lawsuit concluded. The inquiry concluded: "We find that Robert Hamill had been assaulted earlier the Land Rover officers got retired of their vehicle. "They were not alert of the battle and aft they had got retired of their vehicle, they attempted to reconstruct order. "They did not successful immoderate mode condone oregon collude with attackers." Although the inquiry found that the 4 officers in the constabulary conveyance could not have prevented the murder, the police probe was flawed – some astatine the country and successful the days that followed. "The inquiry found that serving RUC [Royal Ulster Constabulary] officers were blameworthy of wrongful omissions and that those omissions arose some astatine the country and during the archetypal investigation," it said. The inquiry concluded that some of the mistakes in the probe were negligent, portion others were deliberate. The 290-page study followed an inquiry which cost about £33m. The killing of the young Catholic came during the bid process in Northern Ireland but was a reminder of the extent of the sectarian divisions which inactive existed. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive breaking news on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also