Ulster Unionist Leader Mike Nesbitt has stated that it is perverse logic to ask victims of abuse to rely on trust to get to the truth of what happened in Kincora.
Ulster Unionist Leader Mike Nesbitt said:
"I am very disappointed for the Kincora victims. They deserve the truth and also to have confidence no stone is being left unturned in the search for that truth.
"I am not attacking Sir Anthony Hart and his Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, but the fact is the UK process has greater powers to compel papers and witnesses, not least MI5, the security and police services of the United Kingdom.
“What is happening here is that the authorities, including the Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers MP, are asking the victims of abuse in Kincora to trust them. Do they not realise the hardest thing to ask of a victim of institutional abuse is to ask them to trust the people ultimately responsible for those institutions to act in the victims’ best interests?
“The victims were betrayed decades ago and it is wrong, unfair and hurtful to expect the victims who were abused as young children to rely on trust to get to the truth of the betrayal of trust. The logic of the argument is perverse.”