Three people are to be charged in connection with the sectarian murder of Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill, Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.
Mr Hamill (25), a father of three, was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in the Co Armagh town in 1997 and claims that police failed to intervene are the subject of a public inquiry.
The PPS confirmed three people are to be charged in connection with the case.
The move follows a request from the inquiry team for prosecutors to reconsider a decision not to prosecute an individual.
In a statement the PPS said: “The PPS has confirmed that, following a review of all the available evidence including that given to the Hamill Tribunal, it has concluded that the Test for Prosecution is met in respect of two persons for an offence of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and one person for an offence of doing an act with intent to pervert the course of justice.”