GROUP 13

[Peter Presland]

Interesting that the NI attorney general, John Larkin, only yesterday called for an end to inquiries and prosecutions for any events that happened prior to the 1998, Good Friday Agreement.

It looks fairly certain he had prior knowledge of the Panorama programme and sought to deflect any calls for prosecutions. Why? Simply old fashioned government embarrassment? Or would such an investigation lever open even worse past events/

What I find even more interesting is Larkin's transformation since the heady days (for him) of his appointment to that exalted position back in May 2010. One of his first acts was to announce a new inquest into the 1986 shooting dead by 2 British SF soldiers of IRA man Francis Bradley at which the soldiers involved would be required to give evidence. A week later, Derek Bird went on his rampage in Cumbria. Larkin then quietly dropped his inquest idea. My guess is that was his first experience of being leaned on by the deep state because it seems that Bird was either one of the soldiers that killed Bradley or was at least a member of the undercover team that identified and ambushed him. That had (and still does have) clear relevance to the Cumbria mass killings but you will not find mention of it - or Birds service in the British army - anywhere in the MSM. My inquiring emails to Larkins office also went unanswered, though admittedly I have not been persistent in following them up.

3 years later and what do we find? - a thoroughly Establishment-acclimatised legal official who has learned who his masters are - or at the very least that they - whoever they are - must not be crossed.