Watchdog finds “collusive behaviour” by police in Northern Eire murders – BBC Information
Police in Belfast engaged in “collusive behaviour” with loyalist paramilitaries who carried out 11 murders within the Nineties, in response to a report by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Eire.
Marie Anderson investigated eight assaults by paramilitary loyalist gangs. She stated it was “completely unacceptable” that police used informants inside the Ulster Defence Affiliation, who have been engaged in crimes together with homicide.
In a single assault gunmen shot useless 5 Catholics and wounded seven others at a betting store in south Belfast in 1992. The watchdog discovered that Royal Ulster Constabulary information referring to the assault had been intentionally destroyed.
The police apologised for the “failings recognized” by the Ombudsman.
Huw Edwards presents BBC Information at Ten reporting by Eire correspondent Emma Vardy.
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