Channel: TalkTV

Category: News & Politics

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Description: "I know it was mentioned in the Queen's speech yesterday...it's too late for my father...I don't think it will come through." John, the son of Army veteran Dennis Hutchings who died while awaiting trial, is doubtful about government plans for immunity from Troubles prosecutions. The partner of a Troubles era Army veteran said she is taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming discriminatory treatment by the British Government. Kim Devonshire, partner of Northern Ireland veteran Dennis Hutchings who died in October last year, said she will “continue Dennis’ fight” and take a case to the Strasbourg court on “behalf of British Army veterans”. Before he died, Mr Hutchings took a case that veterans were being subject to discriminatory treatment in breach of the Human Rights Act to the European Court of Human Rights. Ms Devonshire said she wants to continue the fight to “ensure fair treatment for veterans”. She accused the UK Government of abandoning its veterans. Mr Hutchings, an 80-year-old from Cawsand in Cornwall, died in Belfast last year after contracting Covid-19 while he was in the city to face trial over a fatal shooting in Co Tyrone in 1974. #talkradio #talktv