Labour seeks inquiry into police collusion in murder

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.

Party leader Pat Rabbitte raised the case of 22-year-old Raymond McCord, who was battered to death by a loyalist paramilitary gang. It was the first time that a case involving allegations of collusion into the death of a loyalist has been raised in the Dáil.

Mr McCord’s father, also Raymond, and other members of his families were in the visitors’ gallery as Mr Rabbitte spoke during the adjournment debate.