Family of murdered GAA official applauded outside court

The family of a GAA official who was killed by loyal has been applauded by a multitude of supporters when they arrived at the Court of Appeals in Belfast for the last hearing in his attempt to ensure public investigation.

Sean Brown was shot dead in 1997 after being kidnapped outside a Gaa club in Bellaghy, Londnderry of the County.

The court has ruled that the government’s refusal to conduct an investigation is illegal, but the Secretary of State Hilary Benn confirmed Wednesday that the Government planned to challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United Kingdom.

Prime Minister Michelle O’Neill and the president of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, were among those who supported the Brown family outside the court.

The secretary of Nor asked the Court of Appeal for more time to completely consider the sentence.

Speaking in Westminster on Wednesday, Benn said he remained

Publishing in X on Wednesday, Prime Minister Michelle O’Neill described the government’s decision to challenge the ruling as “cruel and inhuman”, while SDLP leader, Claire, described the “application” movement.

Sinn Féin’s deputy, John Finucane, said the government’s decision to appeal the court ruling is “a continuous advantage for a afflicted family.” He added that the “only viable option” is a public consultation.

Niall Murphy, a lawyer who represents the Brown family, said he was “disgusted by the shameful attempt of the NIO (Northern Ireland office) to turn this applied decision.”

Murphy said there was nothing left for the secretary of Nor to consider it.

“We do not need another day, it does not matter four weeks, it is a public investigation, do what the courts have told you to do or continue your statement of illegality declared,” News or’s even extra told BBC.

On Thursday, Mr. Brown’s daughter, Siobhan, described the United Kingdom government as “shameful” how he informed the family about his decision to challenge the ruling.

“We were distressed by the fact that the information had published the leg without the family knowing in its entirety,” BBC’s Good Morning Ulster program told the BBC.

“To listen suddenly to be transmitted, it’s shameful.”

Brown accused the government of treating his family with disrespect and trying to undermine them.

He referred to the appeal of his mother Bridie, 87 years old to Benn last month so as not to make her go to London to campaign for an investigation.

“My mother made a passionate plea to Hilary Benn, not to take her to London, who has fallen into deaf ears, that is the route we now have to go,” added Siobhan Brown.

Mr. Brown was enclosing the doors of the Gaa Bellaghy Wolfe club, when he was kidnapped by the LVF.

At the beginning of last year, a court heard that more than 25 people, including state agents, had been linked by intelligence material to Brown’s murder.

In March 2024, a coroner said that Mr. Brown’s investigation could not continue because the material is celebrated for national security.

He decided that the editors of the intelligence material Meean could not investigate Copy the circumstances of the murder.

Instead, he wrote to the then secretary of Ireland of Norte Chris Heaton-Harris, requesting a public investigation on the case.

In December, the Superior Court ruled that the current secretary of Ireland of the North, Hilary Benn, must establish a public investigation into the murder.

Then, the Government appealed against that ruling, increasing a legal challenge to the Court of Appeals.

However, the president of the president of the lady, Dame, Siobhan Keegan, said it was “a shocking state of things” that had happened more than 25 years, but there was no leg “legal investigation on the circumstances” or the death of Mr. Brown.

After that decision, Mr. Brown’s family said Benn should “do the right thing.”

Mr. Brown’s widow spoke directly with the Secretary of Ni, saying: “Five judges have told her what to do, do the right thing and do not make me go to London.”