Judge vows to ensure witnesses in 'collusion' probe

A judge today vowed to do all in his power to ensure witnesses from Britain and Northern Ireland attend his investigation into the IRA murder of two RUC officers.

Judge Peter Smithwick told the opening day of a tribunal in Dublin into the deaths of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan that he hoped all potential witnesses would co-operate voluntarily with his inquiry into allegations of police collusion in the murder.