Published Friday, 18 June 2010
As the family ended their legal challenge over the Public Prosecution Service's handling of the case, Mr Holland's sister confirmed they will now seek meetings with the Attorney General John Larkin and Justice Minister David Ford.
The 65-year-old victim was stabbed to death with a screwdriver near his home on Norfolk Drive, west Belfast in September 2007.
Stephen McKee, 19, of Ballymurphy Road in the city, has received a life sentence for the murder.
But Patrick Crossan, 19, of Willowbank Gardens, and a girl aged 17 at the time of the attack were given lesser sentences after admitting other charges including affray.
Mr Holland's widow, Pauline, launched judicial review proceedings against the PPS, amid claims that it has failed to honour commitments to inform her on how it pursued the case against the suspects.
A letter setting out the reasons was subsequently supplied to the family's legal representatives, leading to the case being discontinued at the High Court on Friday.
Their barrister, Ciaran White, said: "In that narrow sense the judicial review (application) we say has achieved what it sought to achieve."
Mr White added, however, that Mr Holland "remains unhappy with the reasons" but understood the court could not go into those specifics.
After the proceedings were formally dismissed, Mr Holland's sister Geraldine McAteer confirmed the family would be taking legal advice before deciding their next move.
She said: "In my view we got a letter from the PPS which outlined to us their reasons for not proceeding with manslaughter charges. What we don't have are the full papers on which they made that decision."
Mrs McAteer said they have not been able to secure those documents from the police, and insisted that at least two other people should have been charged with manslaughter as part of a joint enterprise case.
"Just because one person steps forward and says they killed Harry really doesn't mean the other two should have walked," she argued.
"What we have every intention of doing is seeking a meeting with the new Attorney General and requesting a meeting with the Minister for Justice David Ford and speaking to them about the experiences we have had and talking to them about the detail of the case."