Just when you thought everything was going so well ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6284296.stm

Mr Murphy, a Protestant, had worked for two years for the RUC in the 1980s ...

Just because things have moved politically doesn't mean it has moved anywhere else.

What will happen to the two senior police officers who tormented Stephen Murphy?

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Seán Mac Eachaidh
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They will be quietly moved to a different parish to avoid scandal, and their superiors will say that the case is closed.

Don't suppose there's even the remotest possibility of there being two sides to this story?

Depends on where you live.
If you live in the north and something happens here you see it for what it is.
If you live in the south and something happens you must find something else that happened from the "other side" in order to say "theyre all as bad as eachother"

I live in the South and I don't think there are two sides to the story. The fact that the PSNI did not either defend the action or attend the hearing to explain what had gone on is an indictment of not only the two officers involved, but the leadership who made the decision. Failing to name the two officers is laughable.

The officers should be sacked, as should who ever ultimately took the decision not to attend the hearing - and if that was a decision of the Chief Constable so be it, he's got to go.

While the actions of the two officers are reprehensible - the action of the PSNI corporately is significantly worse.

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It would help if you got things correct.

The plaintiff served in the RUC, not the PSNI. The abuse he suffered was in the RUC, not the PSNI which did not exist then. He left the force before the PSNI was formed. He was never in the PSNI.

The only link to the PSNI at all is because in law the PSNI is the successor entity to the RUC. The RUC does not exist any more to pay compensation or rehire someone.

Ditto if someone in the Irish Free State in 1937 suffered a wrong, and they told legal action, the successor state to the Irish Free State at the time of the court case, Ireland, would be the one due to pay damages. It would not mean that the successor state was the guilty party, but that they inherited the legal responsibilities of the guilty party, even though they themselves were not guilty, when the guilty party had legally ceased to exist.

What you'll notice about the good ole North is that while Catholics/Nationalists/Republicans tend to hate Unionists and the Brits in a political sense, Protestants tend to hate Catholics per se in an almost pathological sense.