YOUR columnist Steven King is in denial. He marshals a series of assertions and half-truths (Irish Examiner, January 31) in the hope of persuading people that the recent Northern police ombudsman’s report did not prove collusion between the RUC and UVF in the murder of Protestants and Catholics alike.

Police in riot gear were called onto the streets of north Belfast overnight amid ongoing tensions surrounding the expulsion of the Shoukri brothers from the Ulster Defence Association.