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Paisley Junior chiede indagini su Gerry Adams

Paisley Jr calls for Adams investigation

Ian Paisley Jr has asked the Assembly to investigate whether Gerry Adams broke the rules after reportedly failing to cooperate early enough with the authorities over his brother’s alleged sex abuse.
Submitting an eight-point complaint letter to Assembly Ombudsman Tom Frawley Mr Paisley said he raised the matter out of concern that Mr Adams had breached the Assembly code of conduct.

Mr Frawley will decide whether to pass the complaints onto the Assembly’s Committee on Standards and Privileges.

Responding to the complaint lodged by Mr Paisley, Mr Adams insisted he had nothing to hide.

“If the Assembly Ombudsman wants to speak to me on this issue, I will, of course, co-operate fully,” he said.

He also questioned the DUP MLA’s motives.

“This is a despicable attempt by Ian Paisley Junior to distract attention away from internal DUP difficulties,” he added.

Questions

Liam Adams handed himself in to police in the Irish Republic last month but officers were unable to detain him because the PSNI had not yet applied for a European arrest warrant.

The younger brother of the Sinn Fein president is facing 23 charges of raping and molesting his daughter, Aine Tyrell, in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.

He walked into a Garda station in Co Sligo days after the Sinn Fein president issued a public appeal urging him to face up to the allegations levelled against him.

But PSNI sources said it would be late January “at the earliest” before they could obtain a warrant which would enable gardai to take Adams into custody and hand him over.

“The situation won’t change in the near future unless he hands himself in to police in Northern Ireland,” the source added.

The police have been hunting for Adams since November 2008 when he failed to turn up for a court appearance in Belfast. But the warrant issued for his arrest then only covered the UK.

Gerry Adams was said to be “surprised” no European warrant had already been prepared before his appearance on a UTV documentary.

His niece, Aine Tyrell, now 36, waived her right to anonymity to go public with the abuse allegations in an Insight Special last December.

Questions have since been raised about how Liam Adams secured positions working with children after he was expelled from Sinn Fein.

From 1998 to 2003, he worked in the Clonard Youth Centre in Belfast and in the Muirhevnamor Community Youth Project in Dundalk, Co Louth.

He was then involved with another youth project in west Belfast from 2004 to 2006.

All three organisations said they were not aware of the claims against him.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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