Dead governor ordered Maze Prison files ‘to be destroyed’

Responsibility for the destruction of security files on hundreds of former paramilitary prisoners in the top security Maze Prison was today laid at the feet of a Northern Ireland prison governor who has since died.

The public inquiry into allegations of state collusion in the murder of Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright inside the Maze in 1997 was told there is no written record of the order for the destruction of the key documents.