Written Question·Northern Ireland Office·UIN 28644

Terrorism: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 4 February 2025
Answered: 12 February 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist PartyUpper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department plans to take steps to commission a public inquiry into the Kingsmill shooting of 5 January 1976.

Answer

Hilary Benn
The Coroner in the Kingsmill Inquest delivered clear and detailed findings on 12 April 2024, setting out that this was a horrific and sectarian terrorist atrocity carried out by the IRA with absolutely no justification. While these findings will have prov...

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