{"id":455609,"date":"2025-09-27T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455609\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:03:19","slug":"martin-ohagan-new-call-for-probe-into-ni-journalists-murder-ahead-of-24th-anniversary-of-lvf-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455609\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Hagan: New call for probe into NI journalist\u2019s murder ahead of 24th\u00a0anniversary of LVF killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sunday World reporter was shot dead by the LVF as he walked home with his wife from a pub in Lurgan on September 28 2001.<\/p>\n

He was the first working journalist to be killed here since the start of the Troubles in 1969.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the 24th anniversary on Sunday, Amnesty International called for a fresh investigation into the murder.<\/p>\n

It also wants a long-awaited report by a watchdog to be released.<\/p>\n

\"Martin<\/p>\n

Martin O’Hagan<\/p>\n

In September 2013, the Director of Public Prosecutions called in the Police Ombudsman to investigate the police handling of the case.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said the ombudsman has confirmed the report is complete, but it is \u201cnot in a position to provide specific timeframes\u201d for its publication.<\/p>\n

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International\u2019s Northern Ireland director, said: \u201cThe murder of Martin O\u2019Hagan casts a long, dark shadow over press freedom in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public execution of Martin O\u2019Hagan was designed to send a clear message to journalists in Northern Ireland that they are not safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is simply unacceptable that, in the 24 years since Martin O\u2019Hagan was shot dead, no-one has been held accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis failure by the state has created an environment of impunity for those who continue to make deaths to journalists in Northern Ireland today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now 12 years since the Police Ombudsman was called in to investigate the police handling of this case. We urge the Police Ombudsman to publish without further delay the report of their investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a fresh investigation into the killing itself \u2013 one that will end the impunity enjoyed for 24 years by Martin O\u2019Hagan\u2019s killers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Martin<\/p>\n

Martin O’Hagan was shot dead by the LVF in 2001<\/p>\n

News Catch Up – Friday 26th September<\/p>\n

S\u00e9amus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, said there was an unwillingness to treat Mr O\u2019Hagan\u2019s murder \u201cwith the necessary degree of seriousness\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo mark another anniversary of Martin O’Hagan’s brutal killing with yet no progress on an independent investigation into his killing is shameful, and sends a deeply concerning message about the UK and Irish governments’ failure to tackle the impunity enjoyed by those who target journalists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Dooley added: \u201dIt is time for all political leaders in Northern Ireland to end the game of \u2018pass the parcel\u2019 and finally deal with this issue as a matter of urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sunday World reporter was shot dead by the LVF as he walked home with his wife from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[779,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-455609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-news","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115276874422540080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}