Tony Taylor Justice Campaign Group to hold event to highlight ongoing incarceration

This Friday 27th January the Tony Taylor Justice Campaign group will host an event in the Maldron Hotel, Derry, at 7.30pm to launch an initiative which will further highlight Tony’s ongoing incarceration.

A spokesperson for the group said: "Tony Taylor was arrested in March 2016 and taken to Maghaberry prison whilst on a shopping trip with his family.

"The decision to detain Tony was not based on a new conviction but was made by the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Parole Commission based on an MI5 assessment which alleges ‘republican activity’ the same ‘republican activity’ for which Tony was questioned and unconditionally released in October 2015.

"Tony’s case is regarded by many as internment in all but name. Internment has been used in the past as a repressive tool of the Stormont regime to silence political opponents and to curtail lawful political activity.

"While the name has changed the fact that people are still being denied their liberty in the absence of due process cannot be disputed. This policy failed in the past and it will again.

"Also on the platform this Friday will be a former Internee and a spokesperson from the Craigavon Two Campaign who will discuss what is widely regarded as an unsafe conviction and miscarriage of justice in case of John Paul Wooton and Brendan McConville. Both men are serving lengthy prison sentences for the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in 2011.

"We would call on people to attend this event in solidarity with the Taylor, McConville and Wooton families."