Troubles legacy body opens four new cases
The body responsible for investigating troubles-related killings has accepted four new cases.
The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) now 14 live investigations.
The commission said it was working with 100 people to progress their cases.
The first cases were announced in September, including an investigation into the Guildford pub bombings in 1974 .
What are the new investigations?
Alexander Millar, who was shot dead at Ardoyne Bus Station in north Belfast on 2 May 1975.
James Oliver (Seamus) Bradley, who was shot and killed in the Creggan are of Londonderry on 31 July 1972.
James and Ellen Sefton, who were killed by a bomb placed beneath their car on the Ballygomartin Road in Belfast on 6 June 1990.
Thomas Sheppard, who was shot dead in Ballymena on 21 March 1996.
What is the ICRIR?
The ICRIR has powers to look into more than 3,500 killings and serious incidents which left up to 40,000 people injured.
It can accept requests for the next five years.
There are 1,300 unsolved murders relating to the troubles, and victims groups say this number dwarfs those being investigated by the ICRIR.
Many victims called for the commission to be scrapped following a court ruling which found the government had too much veto power over what material investigators could release.
In September, those calls were rejected by the Secretary of State, Hilary Benn .
However, he promised to repeal many other elements of the controversial legacy legislation introduced by the Conservative government.
Defending the government's decision to retain the ICRIR, Benn said it could not ditch the Troubles legacy legislation and then leave a "vacuum".
