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Fri 01 Jan 2009'Misgivings' over growing evidence of RUC brutality
INTERROGATION CENTRES:THE CONCERNS of police doctors, MPs, priests and the Northern Ireland Police Authority at mounting evidence of brutality in RUC interrogation centres in the North are detailed in confidential files released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.
The allegations were to lead directly to the establishment of the Bennett inquiry, headed by an English judge, which reported in March 1979. The Bennett report confirmed that injuries sustained in police custody were not self-inflicted. The British government accepted its major recommendations, including the installation of closed-circuit television in interview rooms.
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