No prosecution for Barry McElduff over Kingsmill tweet
Former Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff will not face prosecution over a video he posted of a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.
Mr McElduff stood down as MP for West Tyrone following the controversy caused by his tweet.
He apologised and maintained that he hadn't made a connection to the atrocity when he posted the video.
Ten protestant workmen were murdered by republican paramilitaries near the south Armagh village of Kingsmill in 1976.
'Insufficient evidence'
The Public Prosecution Service confirmed that after giving "detailed consideration", there was "insufficient" evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction.
PPS Assistant Director Martin Hardy said: "The content of the video posted on the anniversary of the Kingsmill murders caused a great deal of hurt to those directly affected by the atrocity.
"We have written to the next of kin of the Kingsmill victims, and the attack's survivor, to explain in detail the rationale for the decision."
The PPS also decided not to prosecute Sinn Féin MLA Máirtín Ó Muilleoir who retweeted the controversial video posted on 5th January 2018.
Again, they said there was insufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of obtaining a conviction.
In a previous interview, Mr Ó Muilleoir said: "I considered Barry McElduff’s Tweet to be entirely innocent and apolitical & retweeted on that basis."