Freddy Howe we are delighted to tell you that we have been led to believe that

the Home Affairs Select Committee will be an-nouncing a review of its earlier report

into Institutional Abuse in the Autumn of this year .

In a linked move with some assistance the Panel has secured the services of a

leading academic at Cambridge Univer-sity to commence a substantial research

 project to provide real and quantifiable challenges to the previous government

 response and to deliver one of the most far reaching analysis of the genre of

 historical abuse allegations ever undertaken by a defence organization .

We hope to be able to utilize this material and in fact deliver it up for use by both

 the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Criminal Cases Review Commission .

Whilst obviously the review by the Select Committee will be linked solely to

 institutional abuse we believe the research will ultimately go wider and also

 benefit those who face more general historical allegations .

To get to this stage has not been easy and has required much behind the

scene activity .It has been astounding to us how cer-tain elements have

started to assume we were sitting back on our laurels .

Well here is your answer we have been doing nothing of the kind and the

 pressure is now on us to complete this work over the summer and early autumn .

We are looking forward to the  research project and the findings that might flow

from it with an expectation that it may achieve a great deal for the cause from a

source of the highest integrity .

And of course events haven’t stopped there . We were delighted to be able to

help the teams of George Anderson and Margaret Hewitt in their successful appeal

against conviction which saw all convictions quashed over a 2 week appeal hearing .

We are confident any suggestion of a re-trial will be rebut-ted and look forward to

seeing George and Margaret at a Forthcoming FACT Meeting .