article_snippet: Whilst prosecutorial challenges may still lie ahead, the obstacles to investigating, arresting and charging suspects appear to have been removed,' Mr Kerr said.
article_snippet: But this left the problem of fugitive terror suspects who had never faced trial.
article_snippet: Mr Blair's has insisted that only those individuals who were genuinely not wanted by police, and were therefore not going to face trial, were supposed to have received OTRs.
article_snippet: The scheme, set up by the Labour government in 1999, assured more than 200 paramilitary fighters that they were no longer being hunted by the police.
article_snippet: I wanted to put the death, destruction, terrorism and misery to an end.
article_snippet: I couldn't bring back those people who had died during the Troubles
article_snippet: but I was trying to make sure there would not be further victims.'