“Unspeakable, unspeakable,” was a
quote Sir Anthony Hart, chairman of the Historical Institutional Abuse
(HIA) inquiry, chose from one of the witnesses who gave evidence to his
inquiry.
It was as good a description as
any to use to try to characterise the dark nature of his 10-volume,
2,300-page exploration of the abuse suffered by hundreds of children in
care homes throughout the North after partition from 1922 to 1995.
