Mull of Kintyre Review

Bob Stewart Excerpts

Wednesday 13th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)]

Three of the colonels on board the Chinook that day were friends of mine. One of them, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Gregory-Smith, a commander of intelligence in Northern Ireland, was the godfather of my first son. Does the Secretary of State agree that the families have shown huge dignity and great courage in the years since 1994?

[Dr Fox]

I think that the families have shown calmness, dignity, great strength and great courage. I hope they feel today that all of that has been vindicated.