Police Murder Conspiracy

CALLED TO GIVE EVIDENCE members of the R.U.C nobody iar Dae ee Fak eee | is able to identify even one of the FOR A MOMENT FROM THE EVEN police involved in the assault. Not MORE HORRIFYING ADMISSION even a year's investigation by exMADE BY SIR ARTHUR YOUNG ; perienced detectives has wormed THAT "WILFUL ASSAULTS WERE | from these hardened police conUNDOUBTEDLY MADE UPON | spirators the identity of the murderANN AND CATHERINE". i ilian to conceive of the persistent, | wilful | of these police murderers has had The report does not directly to do - and that each of the other accuse the silent police conspir- | policemen who know their identity ators of murder - that would be up has had to do - over the past year to to a court of justice (if there were | conceal the truth from an experany justice in this country) to de- | ienced detective. Only the most cide. But what Sir Arthur Young | purposeful, organised and skilful says can leave no doubt in anybody's | liars could have kept up the premind that the 'wilful assaults which | tence successfully so that now, and the police undoubtedly made" | probably for ever, their conspiracy brought about Devenney's death: of silence will remain unbroken. "Having studied the extensive and Yet these consummate liars, who complex medical evidence placed have proved their skill by baffling before me, the appropriate charges | an experienced detective, are called causing grievous bodily harm". against members of the public. was as a result of this ''grievous Sir Arthur has not said who they "WILFUL ASSAULTS", ''GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM" AND A " CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE AMONG THOSE OFFICERS WHO POSSESS THIS GUILTY KNOWLEDGE": THOSE WERE THE THREE SHOCK PHRASES WITH WHICH SIR THE RESULTS OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE MURDER BY POLICE OF SAMUEL DEVENNEY IN DERRY LAST YEAR, THE STARK FACT THAT SERVING MEMBERS OF THE | POLICE FORCE HAVE BEEN PUB- | LICLY ACCUSED BY THEIR SEN| IOR OFFICER OF A CONSPIRACY TO CONCEAL THE IDENTITY OF is A POLICE MURDERER; THE STARF FACT THAT THESE CONSPIRA~ TORS AND MURDERERS STILL SERVING IN THE R.U.C. MAY BE SAMUEL DEVENNEY, HIS SON HARRY AND HIS DAUGHTERS (8 ’

| would have been for offences of upon in court to give evidence It bodily harm" that Samuel Devenney died.

Murder most foul! And yet be- | cause of a conspiracy to prevent ; a a ‘ be “a oe (SEE STORY INSIDE)

the course of justice by serving ers.

It is difficult for an ordinary civ| callous, determined lying that each | may be, or how many of them there are. Until every one of those suspected of be ng involved in the conspiracy is sacked from the R.U.C., PART OF THE CROWD AT MONDAY'S BUS FARE PROTEST it will be impossible justly to conviet any member of the public on | police evidence. How is the court to know that beneath the plausable exterior and neat police uniform there does not lurk one of the Devenney murder conspirators? Until the last conspiracy suspect is sacked, members of the public are advised, in their own interest, to treat every member of the RUC with suspicion. Every policeman who was in Derry on the night of | April 19th 1969 is suspect. And the | suspects are dangerous: remember they have lied their way out of a murder charge.

GALLAGHER It was after the publication of a name in FREE CITIZEN that the Drury enquiry’was started. We think that that enquiry, in at least publicly admitting that there is a police conspiracy, was worthwhile, For the same reason we would welcome enquiries into the deaths of John Gallagher, shot by the B Specials in Armagh, and Frank McCloskey, who died after a beating by R.U.C. in Dungiven.

FREE CITIZEN 6th NOVEMBER 1970