NI rioters have drug debts cleared by paramilitaries, MPs told

Key Facts

• "From what I've heard from young people, they can get up to £80 of drug debt cleared," Megan Phair, from The Stop Attacks Forum, said.
• She was giving evidence to the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee which is examining paramilitary activity.
• 'SHOCKING TACTICS' "That is the first time we have heard that," the committee's chairman Simon Hoare said in response to Ms Phair's evidence.
• The victims' commissioner, Ian Jeffers, is also giving evidence to the committee and is expected to say the presence of paramilitary groups represents the "most potent threat to the wellbeing of victims and survivors of the Troubles".

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