Remembering Sir Edwin Jowitt: Retired judge chaired Robert Hamill Inquiry

Retired judge Sir Edwin Jowitt chaired the inquiry into police actions around the killing of Robert Hamill.His death comes ahead of the expected publication this year of the long-awaited inquiry report, which was completed 15 years ago.Mr Hamill, a Catholic father-of-three, was beaten by a loyalist mob in Portadown in April 1997 and died in hospital 11 days later.RUC officers who were in a nearby Land Rover were accused of failing to intervene.The Robert Hamill Inquiry was set up in 2004 “with a view to determining whether any wrongful act or omission by or within the Royal Ulster Constabulary facilitated his death or obstructed the investigation of it, or whether attempts were made to do so; whether any such act or omission was intentional or negligent; whether the investigation of his de