Inquiry starting point in crimes of collusion

THE only good thing to emerge from the fiasco of the withdrawn ‘on-the-runs’ legislation is the implicit admission by the British government that its forces have committed crimes in Ireland for which they have not been brought to justice.

Hopefully, those who have now recognised that British forces have been involved in murder, torture and collusion will give full support to the families of the victims who have struggled to achieve justice since the first killings in 1969.

I suggest a good starting point for such an investigation would be to ascertain if any of the following are in the PSNI: the killers of Samuel Devenny and nine-year-old Patrick Rooney in 1969; the killers of children like Julie Livingstone and women like Nora McCabe with plastic bullets; and those special branch members who colluded in the killing of Pat Finucane and hundreds of others.