Abnormal society gave rise to strange alliances

YOUR columnist Steven King is in denial. He marshals a series of assertions and half-truths (Irish Examiner, January 31) in the hope of persuading people that the recent Northern police ombudsman’s report did not prove collusion between the RUC and UVF in the murder of Protestants and Catholics alike.

Mr King neatly fails to mention that Raymond McCord Jr was a Protestant and that his father finally took his case to the ombudsman because of the failure of his unionist representatives. Why the omission?

Could it be Mr King wants to portray the work of the ombudsman as biased and reforms of policing in the North as a republican plot?