My understanding from the home office psychiatric report is that my daughter is not expected ever to make a 100 percent recovery. Roisin's reality is that she may walk with a limp for the rest of her life. Someone is accountable for all of that, someone is accountable for my daughter's state of health. Someone is accountable for the fact the European extradition treaty is a mess and was open to abuse. These matters are not resolved by the ending of proceedings against Roisin.
Someone is to blame.
In her attack, the former politician particularly focused her criticism on the Castlereagh holding centre in Northern Ireland, where her daughter was questioned. After her arrest at her home in November 1996, Roisin was taken to Castlereagh where she was detained for nearly a week. During that period, her mother claims that her daughter endured psychological torture, was repeatedly threatened and was forced to relive a particularly traumatic childhood memory. Roisin was only nine years old when loyalist paramilitaries burst into the family's remote farmhouse in Coalisland, County Tyrone. The eldest of three children, Roisin was in the bedroom with her mother and father and witnessed both her parents being repeatedly shot and left for dead.