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21/09/2012
Robinson Standards Investigation Still Not Complete
An investigation into the conduct of Peter and Iris Robinson has still not been completed, the BBC has reported.
An investigation was launched in January 2010 following the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme about Mrs Robinson's financial dealings.
The Assembly Standards and Privileges Committee ordered the investigation shortly after the Spotlight report on Mrs Robinson's financial dealings and relationship with young businessman Kirk McCambley.
However, the inquiry was delayed for more than a year after the police launched their own investigation into the affair.
In March 2011, the Public Prosecution Service announced that no criminal charges would be brought. Three months later, the assembly said its own investigation would resume.
However, this week the interim standards commissioner, Tom Frawley, stood down without publishing a report on the Robinsons.
It is understood that a key witness, assumed to be Mrs Robinson, was considered too ill to interview.
The case will now be one of a handful passed on to new Standards Commissioner Douglas Bain.
Mr Bain has also rejected unionist calls for him to resign from his other post as a member of the Parades Commission.
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An investigation was launched in January 2010 following the broadcast of a BBC Spotlight programme about Mrs Robinson's financial dealings.
The Assembly Standards and Privileges Committee ordered the investigation shortly after the Spotlight report on Mrs Robinson's financial dealings and relationship with young businessman Kirk McCambley.
However, the inquiry was delayed for more than a year after the police launched their own investigation into the affair.
In March 2011, the Public Prosecution Service announced that no criminal charges would be brought. Three months later, the assembly said its own investigation would resume.
However, this week the interim standards commissioner, Tom Frawley, stood down without publishing a report on the Robinsons.
It is understood that a key witness, assumed to be Mrs Robinson, was considered too ill to interview.
The case will now be one of a handful passed on to new Standards Commissioner Douglas Bain.
Mr Bain has also rejected unionist calls for him to resign from his other post as a member of the Parades Commission.
(H)
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