Are ex-prisoners getting a bad deal? Court quashes decision that cost former republican prisoner his job

A High Court judge has quashed a decision to stop an ex-republican prisoner working as a groundskeeper. Martin Neeson, who was convicted of murder and other offences in the 1970s, was deemed unsuitable for his job after a new vetting assessment in 2013. He had been employed by a charity on ground maintenance work for 19 years, before newly-applied Government vetting arrangements cost him his job. He was 16 when he committed the paramilitary offences and is now 58. The Department of Finance will now have to re-examine his case. The ruling raises much wider issues regarding the rights of former republican and loyalist prisoners. Stephen spoke to Michael Culbert from Coiste, an organisation which works with former Republican prisoners, former MLA Dawn Purvis has worked with loyalist ex-prisoners, victims campaigner Kenny Donaldson