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Troubles: Four new cases accepted by legacy body

The ICRIR has powers to look into more than 3,500 killings and serious incidents which left up to 40,000 people injured.

It can accept requests for the next five years.

There are 1,300 unsolved murders relating to the troubles, and victims groups say this number dwarfs those being investigated by the ICRIR.

Many victims called for the commission to be scrapped following a court ruling which found the government had too much veto power over what material investigators could release.

In September, those calls were rejected by the Secretary of State, Hilary Benn.

However, he promised to repeal many other elements of the controversial legacy legislation introduced by the Conservative government.

Defending the government’s decision to retain the ICRIR, Benn said it could not ditch the Troubles legacy legislation and then leave a “vacuum”.


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