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Kate Carroll would meet husband’s killer (UTV)
The widow of murdered PSNI officer Stephen Carroll has told UTV she would be prepared to meet one of the men who killed her husband.
Kate Carroll said she would go into jail to talk to former Sinn Féin councillor Brendan McConville, who was convicted for his part in the policeman’s death.
“If he wanted to speak to me and tell me who did kill my husband, then yes – I would speak to him,” she said.
“I would have no problem with that because I’ve got a clean and pure heart and I would just want to know why, but I would be strong enough to stand and look him in the eye and ask him why.
“I would ask him if he didn’t kill my husband, then who did? And if he did, then why did he and what gave him the right to do that?”
Kate Carroll earlier accepted an offer from the 41-year-old’s mother Eileen McConville to speak face to face, after admitting she could find it in her heart to feel sorry for them.
She it would be a “symbolic gesture” towards promoting peace in Northern Ireland.
“In the past I have said I would speak to anyone in an attempt to bring hatred and bigotry to an end and it was not an empty gesture,” Mrs Carroll continued.
“Brendan McConville’s parents did not murder Steve so I am prepared to listen to what they have to say and give people the chance to move on.
“It would be like a symbolic gesture for peace in our country and I feel that forgiveness is part of healing.”
Constable Carroll, 48, was shot dead in an ambush in Craigavon in March 2009.
Two men, McConville and 21-year-old John Paul Wootton, were handed respective minimum jail terms of 25 and 14 years after having been found guilty of the murder.