Brutality against suspects detailed

INTERROGATION DEBATE: the then Assistant Chief Constable Jack Hermon. PICTURE: Irish News archive

Police doctors, MPs, priests and the Northern Ireland Police Authority were growing increasingly concerned at mounting evidence of brutality in RUC interrogation centres in the north in the late seventie

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