Former RUC chief refuses to resign over revelations

FORMER RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan last night resisted demands for his resignation over revelations that police in the North protected a loyalist murder gang.

He came out fighting amid a barrage of criticism over how Special Branch handlers in Belfast paid and shielded a terrorist informer involved in up to 15 killings.

Mr Flanagan, the RUC Chief Constable at the height of the Ulster Volunteer Force unit’s bloody campaign, faced a clamour to explain what he did and did not know.