Statement by TUV leader JIm Allister:-
“I strongly commend and support the collective of 14 innocent victims groups who have called for the resignation of the Victims’ Commissioner.
“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.
“So, her recent failure to demand that any victims’ pension must only be available to the innocent and not victim-makers, is but the latest in a tenure that has failed to serve innocent victims and in consequence has lost the confidence of that sector. 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. That will be a test of whether the Executive Office is on the side of innocent victims, or not.”