No files in relation to the arrest and conviction of double killer Malcolm MacArthur have been cleared for release in the tranche of 30-year-old documents.

All thoughts are with the Gargan and Dunne families as the moment they had long feared has come to pass.

It’s 30 years since the “grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented” events that led to the resignation of the attorney general, writes Richard Fitzpatrick