Pressure mounts on Ahern

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.

The scale of British collusion with paramilitaries in the North was laid bare by a damning report from police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan which linked the RUC to 10 murders, 10 attempted murders, and drug running centred on a small part of North Belfast as well as a bomb attack in Monaghan.

The long- awaited probe found Special Branch officers gave the killers, UVF police informers, immunity and ensured the murderers were not caught.