{"id":47398,"date":"2025-04-24T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47398\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:31:12","slug":"john-ohara-ruc-probe-into-murder-of-taxi-driver-was-ineffective-and-incapable-of-catching-killers-ombudsman-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47398\/","title":{"rendered":"John O\u2019Hara: RUC probe into murder of taxi driver was ineffective and incapable of catching killers, ombudsman report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Police Ombudsman finds raft of failings, including loss of UFF killers\u2019 guns\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mr O\u2019Hara\u2019s taxi at Dunmurry RUC station after his murder by loyalists gunmen in April 1991. Inset: John O\u2019Hara\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02b57357-f357-4c08-a0df-3b2d89816a91.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mr O\u2019Hara\u2019s taxi at Dunmurry RUC station after his murder by loyalists gunmen in April 1991. Inset: John O\u2019Hara<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two guns used in the sectarian murder of a Catholic taxi driver have disappeared from police evidence stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The details emerged in a damning report which found the RUC investigation into the killing of John O\u2019Hara (41) was \u201cineffective\u201d and not capable of bringing the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Ombudsman finds raft of failings, including loss of UFF killers\u2019 guns Mr O\u2019Hara\u2019s taxi at Dunmurry RUC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[25912,1144,17793,6568,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-47398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-allison-morris","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-south-belfast-news","11":"tag-the-troubles","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114394607425738343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47398","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=47398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}