Loughinisland pub attack investigation rules out RUC collusion

THERE was a catalogue of police failings following a loyalist pub shooting in the North which killed six men, an independent investigation has found.

Records went missing, the car used by the terrorists should not have been destroyed the way it was, and detectives failed properly to probe the link between the shootings at Loughinisland, Co Down, and other attacks, police ombudsman Al Hutchinson said.

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) killings happened in the tiny village, as drinkers watched the Republic of Ireland play Italy during the 1994 World Cup.