P.A. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant is a citizen of the United Kingdom, born in 1928 and living in Armagh in Northern Ireland. She was the wife of P.A. She is represented before the Court by Mr G. O’Neill, a lawyer practising in Dublin. On 17 May 1974 P.A. was killed in a terrorist bombing in Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The car used for the bombing was stolen in Portadown, Northern Ireland on the same day. The Irish authorities conducted extensive inquiries but were unable to bring charges against any person. The files remain open. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland has conducted an inquiry into the theft of the vehicle and related offences which did not produce any results. However, there was no formal murder inquiry by the RUC. On 6 July 1993 ITV, a television station in the United Kingdom, broadcast a programme in which the adequacy of the RUC inquiry was discussed.