PRESSURE mounted on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last night to demand the prosecution of Special Branch officers who helped a loyalist murder gang kill with impunity throughout the 1990s.

Devastating evidence that loyalist paramilitary informers were allowed to get away with a series of murders in the North will be revealed today.

The North's Police Ombudsman is believed to have handed over her report on alleged collusion between officers and the UVF to the chief constable.

A third former detective is being questioned in a major probe into suspected police collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in the North.

A third former detective was questioned tonight as part of a major probe into suspected police collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in the North.

The Government should press for an international inquiry into RUC collusion in the murder of a young loyalist man in the North seven years, the Labour Party argued yesterday.