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McCord gets poor reception from British Embassy


Published Thursday, May 21, 2009, 6:16 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:06 PM

 

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McCord seeks U.S. justice for son

Raymond McCord, the Belfast man who was in Washington last week seeking justice for the murder of his son by a Loyalist paramilitary group in 1997, was disheartened with the cold reception and lack of answers he got from the British Embassy in the nation’s capital.

McCord’s son, Raymond McCord Junior, a radar operator in the Royal Air Force, was found beaten to death in Ballyduff Quarry on the outskirts of north Belfast on November 9, 1997.

The 22-year-old Protestant was murdered by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) to protect a senior Loyalist and a police informant who was being investigated by UVF leadership over involvement in drug dealing.

Since his son’s murder, McCord, who from day one suspected police collusion and was later proved right, has been fighting to seek justice for his son’s murder.

Because door after door was shut in McCord’s face in Ireland, the father decided the only thing left to do now was to bring his son’s case to Capitol Hill. 

McCord spent last week lobbying members of Congress to seek a congressional hearing into his son’s murder. He urged members to write a letter calling on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to meet with him and his family. 

McCord is secondly seeking a congressional resolution requesting that the Irish and British governments hold an independent public inquiry into Raymond’s murder. He is also urging congress to hold their own congressional hearing into his son’s killing. 

McCord, a pipe fitter by trade, had a series of meeting with high-ranking congress members about his son’s murder and is very optimistic that a congressional hearing will take place in the coming months.

 “I’m very optimistic from the meetings I’ve had and there is not one person who has given me a negative response,” McCord told IrishCentral in an interview last week.

 “They are very well briefed on my son’s case and very sympatric and it just amazes me,” he said.

However, disappointment came on Wednesday of last week when he met with British government representatives. 

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