As you are doubtless aware the current Victims’ Commissioner’s term of office is coming to an end.
Her period in the post can only be described as disastrous, having lost as she has the support of the innocent victims of terrorism.
The fact that never once during her term of office did she call for the introduction of a definition of a ‘victim’ which removes the current equivalence between victim and victim-maker, is a token of her monumental failure as a supposed victims’ commissioner.
Moreover, her support for a terrorist on the Victims’ Forum at the expense of an elderly innocent victim, epitomised, for me, the flaw at the heart of her mindset.
Her failure to demand that any victims’ pension must only be available to the innocent and not victim-makers, is but one of many examples in a tenure that has failed to serve innocent victims and in consequence has lost the confidence of that sector.
You will also note that, following the belated statement from the DUP yesterday, she has lost the support of all the Unionist parties. She must go.
With her term of office drawing to a close, it would be preposterous and a calculated kick in the teeth for innocent victims if she was reappointed and therefore I write urging you to ensure this does not happen.
Yours sincerely,
Jim Allister