Investigation Reports

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"Police investigation deeply flawed"

Incident Date:

19.05.1991

The 1991 police investigation into the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell was deeply flawed, lacked objectivity and let down the families of both victims.

Full Public Report: "Police investigation deeply flawed"

Police Ombudsman statement on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Mr Frank Hughes

Incident Date:

23.10.1990

Following a complaint about the police investigation into the murder of taxi driver Mr Frank Hughes, murdered by Loyalists near Dungannon in 1990, the Police Ombudsman has reviewed police files relating to t...

Police failed to properly investigate murder, but did not attempt to instigate Republican feud

Incident Date:

15.04.1990

The Police Ombudsman concluded that the RUC failed to properly investigate the death of Eoin David Morley, who was murdered by the IRA on Easter Sunday, April 15 1990. However, Mrs Nuala O'Loan found that th...

Full public statement: Police failed to properly investigate murder, but did not attempt to instigate Republican feud

RUC did not protect murderers from justice

Sign on front of Police Ombudsman's building

Incident Date:

11.10.1988

A Police Ombudsman investigation has found no evidence to indicate that RUC officers were complicit in the murder of a colleague nor protected those responsible from investigation.

Investigation of police officer's murder not thorough: Police Ombudsman

Incident Date:

11.10.1988

The Police Ombudsman's Office has told the son of an off-duty policeman killed in Belfast in 1988 that the investigation into his father's murder was not thorough and that not all information available to po...

Police should have warned about bomb

The aftermath of a 1988 IRA bomb attack in the Creggan Estate, Derry/Londonderry

Incident Date:

31.08.1988

The police had information there was an IRA booby trap bomb in a property in the Creggan Estate in Derry/Londonderry but did nothing to warn those living there of the possible danger.

Public Statement: The bombing of Kildrum Gardens (67pp)

Video: Police should have warned about bomb at Kildrum Gardens

Vulnerable man kept in prison for four months was “not given adequate protection by police”

Incident Date:

Jul 1984

A man with mental health problems spent four months in prison, suspected of involvement in the 1981 murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy, after police failed to follow guidelines for the protection of vuln...

‘No evidence of police involvement in the attempted murder of Gerry Adams.’

Incident Date:

14.03.1984

The Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, has found no evidence of police involvement in the UFF gun attack on Gerry Adams and four other men in Belfast city centre on 14 March 1984.

Full Public Statement: Police not involved in Adams murder bid

No new evidence killing was deliberate but use of baton gun was unjustified

Incident Date:

15.04.1981

A Police Ombudsman investigation into a fatal shooting of a boy on 15 April 1981 in Derry / Londonderry, has not uncovered any additional evidence that there was an intent to unlawfully kill, or to cause gri...

Murder of officer "preventable"

Incident Date:

25.02.1977

Senior police officers within the RUC command structure were aware of a specific threat to one of their officers but failed to warn him about it and did not pass this information to the detectives who inves...

Full public statement: Murder of officer "preventable"

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