Judge Anthony Hart published his lamentable and error strewn report into the Kincora scandal in 2017. It received little or no coverage in the media as it appeared on the same day that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the US. The report was littered with mistakes. It even managed to contradict itself. It had, however, one redeeming factor: Hart definitively exposed the fact that the Terry Report into Kincora (1983) contained a significant lie.

Terry had reported that he had received the cooperation of all of the parties he and his team had approached. That was a deliberate lie. Even Hart, a deeply biased investigator, was unable to concoct one of his absurd excuses for it in his 2017 report.

Terry had approached the Ministry of Defence (MoD) looking to talk to Ian Cameron of MI5. Cameron was a person of interest as he had ordered Captain Brian Gemmell, a military intelligence officer who reported to him, not to investigate the abuse of children by the staff at Kincora. That meant that MI5 knew at least something about the abuse at the home and had taken a decisive step to ensure that it continued. In reality, Cameron was overseeing the exploitation of the children at the home for various nefarious reasons including the collection of ‘kompromat’ about Unionist politicians such as James Molyneaux who went on to become Leader of the Official Unionist Party.

While there is no doubt that Cameron would have lied to Terry, and Terry would have been happy to reproduce those lies – knowing full well that they were entirely deceitful – he nonetheless failed to reach Cameron who was shielded by the Ministry of Defence.

Th deceit of Terry became an embarrassment to the people responsible for the ongoing Kincora cover-up, i.e., the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office and MI5/6. Recently, the press was told that all copies of the report had disappeared. A copy of the dirty document, however, can be read and/or downloaded on most devices by accessing the image below.

Sir George Terry Report Download