Nicholas Griffin QC told the inquiry on Tuesday that although he was only asked to look at a ‘snapshot’ of cases which spanned from the 1960s until the 1990s, he had not identified anything to suggest that facts had been ‘suppressed’.
However, he did note that a police file in one case was ‘not to a high standard’ and he also flagged up failures by a police legal adviser and a Crown Advocate.
The barrister, who has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, looked at eight files, including the case of Jane and Alan Maguire, to examine the original decisions made on whether to prosecute as well as to see how they were investigated as part of Operation Rectangle in 2008.
