{"product_id":"kincora-britains-shame-mountbatten-mi5-the-belfast-boys-home-sex-abuse-scandal-and-the-british-cover-up-9781785375545","title":"Kincora: Britain's Shame : Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe boys sent to Kincora, a home in east Belfast that ran from 1958 to 1980, are at the centre of this book by Chris Moore. It deals with the sexual abuse they suffered there and with claims that it was covered up. Moore draws on survivors' testimony and on help from George Caskey, the retired chief superintendent who ran the police investigation. It's for readers interested in the history of Kincora Belfast, including the Mountbatten Kincora allegations raised in the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoore calls Kincora Britain's shame, and his title also names Lord Mountbatten and MI5. Robin Ramsay, reviewing for Lobster magazine, traces four strands, Moore's decades of digging, how three abusers came to run the home, William McGrath and fringe loyalist politics, and the role of MI5. The book's allegations about Mountbatten and Kincora rest on Moore's reporting of survivors' accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January 2017 the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, chaired by Sir Anthony Hart, found no credible evidence of a paedophile ring of Establishment figures at the home. Moore's book challenges that finding. He told the Andersonstown News in September 2025 that he didn't believe the full truth had yet emerged, as official files stay closed until 2065 and 2085.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoore began reporting in Northern Ireland in 1968, joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1979 and has followed the story since the early 1980s. His earlier The Kincora Scandal book came out in 1996, and Paul Foot in the London Review of Books judged its main conclusion hard to argue with, though he questioned its reliance on police sources. This Chris Moore Kincora account is published in paperback by Merrion Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-bb-audio=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen while you read.\u003c\/strong\u003e The audiobook is on Libro.fm, and part of every sale comes back to our shop. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bb-listen.thomasjohnjunk.workers.dev\/a\/9781785375545?s=product\"\u003eGet the audiobook\u003c\/a\u003e, and it opens the edition sold in your country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Moore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55706699137402,"sku":"9781785375545","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781785375545.jpg?v=1765919023","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/pt\/products\/kincora-britains-shame-mountbatten-mi5-the-belfast-boys-home-sex-abuse-scandal-and-the-british-cover-up-9781785375545","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}