LONDON 30 Jun (ANA) - The millions earned every year by the Government from Colonel Gaddafi's frozen UK assets should be handed over to the victims of the IRA, The DUP demands today.

A Parliamentary report last week disclosed the Treasury took £ 17 million in tax over the past three years from £ 12 billion of Libyan assets linked to the country's late dictator.

Mr Dodds, whose 10 Democratic Unionist Party MPs are supporting the minority Tory Government, said there was "a strong moral and legal case for this money to fund a compensation scheme for the victims of the IRA".

Gaddafi supplied weapons, including Semtex explosives, to the IRA during the Troubles in the 1980s.(ANA)

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