Families to picket Hillsborough tomorrow

A group campaigning for families who believe their relatives were killed as a result of collusion between the security agencies and loyalist paramilitaries announced plans to picket Hillsborough tomorrow.

Firinne spokesman Mark Sykes, who was wounded in a UFF gun attack which claimed the lives of five people in a bookmaker’s shop on Belfast’s Ormeau Road in 1992, said those in the police who “controlled, directed, armed and resourced” paramilitary gangs were still serving.

“The apparatus of collusion is still in place,” he claimed.

“The British government has never accepted its responsibility for the deaths which resulted from this policy.

“Enormous efforts are being made to conceal the truth about collusion. The truth needs now to be told and the structures which operated this policy need to be dismantled.”