Former RUC officer to be sentenced in connection with sectarian murder of Robert Hamill

A Craigavon court has heard how two "entirely innocent" people were sentenced over a former police officer's cover up of phone-calls made to a suspect in a sectarian murder case.

He later said it was a couple who stayed with him that night, to check in on their niece who was a girlfriend of the suspect.Prosecuting KC Toby Hedworth told the court that the couple's relationship later broke down and it emerged that Atkinson had drawn the married couple into his coverup. Defence KC Barry Gibson told Craigavon Court Court that due to multiple strokes, TMIs and heart attacks, “he cannot recall” the contents of the call he made on 27 April 1997.

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