Statement by TUV Leader and North Antrim MP Jim Allister:
“Today’s report by the Police Ombudsman highlights troubling issues concerning the police investigation at a time when Northern Ireland was enduring horrendous sectarian violence.
However, this report must not obscure the fundamental facts relating to Kingsmill — namely, that this was an IRA massacre of innocent men returning from their workplace, murdered solely because they were Protestant.
Despite Sinn Féin’s honeyed words, this report should once again prompt Republicans to confront their role in these heinous acts.
While the police response has been scrutinised in detail, the so-called First Minister for All continues to lead a movement that, far from offering the Kingsmill families any truth, persists in the preposterous fiction that these murders were not the work of their malevolent IRA.
The real scandal this report underscores is the utter unfitness of Ms O’Neill to hold any position in the government of Northern Ireland — let alone one that carries responsibility for victims’ interests.”