Ex-BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan 'would consider' reparations for Great Famine trends now
Ex-BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan 'would consider' reparations for Great Famine trends now
Aristocrats could pay out for Great Famine: Ex-BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan 'would consider' reparations for her ancestor's role in Ireland's devastating crop failures in the 1840s - after family paid £100,000 over historic links to slavery
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A family which has paid £100,000 over its historic role in slavery would consider compensation to Ireland over the Great Famine.
Yesterday former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan was among the officials who 'failed their people' in the 1840s.
The potato crop blight led to the death of a million people and forced another two million to emigrate.
On BBC Radio Ulster, Ms Trevelyan said about compensation: 'If the Irish government said that the Trevelyan family are liable for what Sir Charles did, then
