Terrorism: Northern Ireland
(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the statutory basis of Operation Denton.
This question was answered on 27th November 2025
In 2019, the Barnard Judgment at the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal [2019] (NICA 38) set out the requirement for an independent review of the activities of the so-called ‘Glenanne Gang’. In discharge of the Judicial instruction, the then Chief Constable of the PSNI requested that the enquiries were conducted by Jon Boutcher, who at the time was the Officer in Overall Command of Operation Kenova. Operation Denton commenced in February 2020.