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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The Police Ombudsman has found there was collusion between police | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
officers and a UVF gang who murdered six men | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
The Catholic victims were shot as they watched a World Cup | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
football match in a pub in the County Down village. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Ombudsman said that RUC informers were involved | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The customers were watching the Republic of Ireland play Italy | :00:26. | :00:38. | |
in the World Cup finals when two gunmen burst into this rural pub, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Six men were killed, another five were wounded. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
The six who died were Adrian Rogan, Barney Green, Dan McCreanor, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Eamon Byrne, Malcolm Jenkinson, and Patsy O'Hare. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Today, in a 160-page report, Michael Maguire gave | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the families many of the answers they've been seeking, | :01:03. | :01:18. | |
In addition, my investigation found some security forces | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
and the Newcastle subdivision have been customised | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Either through direct involvement with loyalist | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
The report concludes had this UVF unit been subject to investigation, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
they may have been arrested and may not have been involved | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Whether that attack would have been carried out by another | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
It is important to note we did not find any specific evidence | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
that the police had information that there would be an attack | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Michael McQuire said many police officers did work tirelessly | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
But he was scathing of the overall police approach, including | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
The investigation particularly in the early stages | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
was characterised by incompetence, indifference and neglect. | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
When viewed collectively, I have no hesitation in saying | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
collusion was a significant feature in the Loughinisland attacks. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
The ombudsman met with the families in Loughinisland last night, | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
This afternoon, they came together, to give their | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
We set out to look for truth and justice. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
22 years later, we have truth, but we still haven't got justice. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
We are elated with the report's findings. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Reaction from the PSNI Chief Constable came at today's | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
That is entirely not acceptable to me, anathema to my standards | :02:32. | :02:52. | |
I would say even to the standards of policing in 1994. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
That is totally not acceptable and those people should be | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Emma Rogan was only eight when her father Adrian | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
There is a part in the report that said that bad | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
people were in the pub, that is what I was told, | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
bad men entered the pub and murdered my father. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Everywhere we went, the door was slammed in our face. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
They said, no, the police are making that up, | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
collusion doesn't exist, that is wrong. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Today, we have got the truth, and we were right. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
The shootings in Loughinisland have always been remembered as one | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Guns used in the Loughinisland attack came from a huge Loyalist | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
And the Police Ombudsman's report reveals that many of the weapons | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
were moved when a Loyalist was tipped off that his home | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
An Ulster resistance rally at the Ulster Hall. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Formed to combat the Anglo-Irish agreement, some Unionist | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
They always denied any involvement in paramilitary activity and said | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
they had left by the time it was trying to import weapons. | :04:05. | :04:16. | |
consignment from South Africa along with the UDA and UVF. | :04:17. | :04:34. | |
Six years later, a rifle from that shipment was used | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Other South African guns were used in at least 70 other murders | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
The key question is, why did that happen? | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Given that RUC special Branch and military intelligence knew | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
They knew because senior loyalists who were informers were involved | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
The police ombudsman's report today also confirms some of those directly | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
involved had been under long-term surveillance by the police, | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
And when a gang drove to County Armagh to pick up some | :04:57. | :05:15. | |
of the weapons in January 1988, they were being watched. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
But the surveillance team said they lost sight of the vehicles | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
during the actual time they were being loaded | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
One hour and a half later, a substantial amount of the shipment | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
was seized in two cars stopped at a police checkpoint. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
But not all of the weapons were retrieved. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Including the rifle used to kill six people in Loughinisland. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
The police ombudsman says he has established the rest | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
of the shipment was stored at home of this man, James Mitchell, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
As part of the BBC Spotlight investigation 12 years ago, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
I asked him to respond to allegations he was a member | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
of the Glenanne gang, a group of loyalists links to more | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Special Branch knew all about James Mitchell. | :05:51. | :06:06. | |
Police had found weapons on his farm in 1978, | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
and in a confession can he told them it was one of the main UVF arms | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Special Branch, though, did not pass any of this information | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
to detectives trying to locate the weapons. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
I fail to understand why the police actually could not go | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
As we say in the report, it did have the consequences | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
of failure to go quickly to the farm meant the weapons were moved. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Michael Maguire says James Mitchell was tipped off within two hours | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
of the cars being stopped in Portadown, that his | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
The rest of the weapons were moved to another | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
It has emerged, that within hours, they were in the hands | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
A former UDR soldier, he was a leader of the UVF | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Dubbed the jackal by journalists he was behind dozens | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
But he was never questioned about the shipment. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
Today, the ombudsman said it was a matter of significant | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
concern that Special Branch protected loyalists from effective | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
investigation by failing to pass on intelligence about activities. | :07:19. | :07:31. | |
Despite being implicated in importation of the weapons, | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
senior members of the UDA, UVF and resistance were not subject | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
This can be attributed to a decision by Special Branch not to disseminate | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
intelligence implicating these individuals, some | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
Given the gravity of conspiracy and impact this has had | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
on the lives of many, I believe this decision | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
on the lives of many, I believe this decision is indefensible. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
The report today again goes to the heart of the relationship | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
between informers and their handlers. | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
Michael Maguire says some police officers appeared to place more | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
value on gathering information and protecting their sources, | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
than in prevention and detection of crime. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
That poses serious questions of the very purpose | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
Two former Prime Ministers were here today to urge people | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
Sir John Major and Tony Blair warned that leaving would jeopardise | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
They faced questions from students at the Ulster | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Our Political Correspondent Enda McClafferty reports. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
The architects of the peace process, taking time out to survey | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Derry's Peace Bridge was the first port of call today | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
It was built to celebrate the peace they helped secure. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
How times have changed from Sir John's last visit | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Back then, he found himself in the middle of a battle | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
between republican protesters and police. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
This time, the reception was very different. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
The old political foes were on a joint mission to convince | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
voters here to stay in the EU, warning that the UK could be torn | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
apart if the vote goes the other way. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
I believe it would be an historic mistake to do anything that has any | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
risk to destabilise the complicated and multilayered constitutional | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
settlement that underpins the present stability in Northern | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
the European Union would do. It would throw all the pieces of the | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
constitutional jigsaw up into the air again. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Tony Blair said a vote to leave would undermine the political | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Here we stand as former prime ministers, and we say to the Leave | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
campaign directly, you have fundamental questions to answer | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
about Northern Ireland, the common travel area, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
the EU on the future make-up of the UK. The people of Northern Ireland | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
need these answers, and need to have them within the next days before | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
But those in the Leave campaign were quick to hit back. | :10:18. | :10:33. | |
I do find it rather disgraceful for both | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
importance of the peace process here in Northern Ireland, to come over | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
here and suggest that a vote on a predicted action would undermine | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
people in Northern Ireland to the political settlement and exclusively | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
peaceful and democratic means to determine the island's future, that | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
become less resolute if there was a democratic vote to leave the EU, is | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
not only unjustified, but actually pretty irresponsible. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
But what about those who were listening? | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Were they convinced by the arguments from the two former | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
They were trying to scare us, scaremongering has been used a lot | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
by politicians and news readers. I feel like they were scaremongering, | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
telling us about drastic consequences if we do leave the EU. | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
I was quite on the fence whether to stay or leave | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
here today will be convinced by the arguments put forward by Sir John | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
Major and Tony Blair. Some don't even have a vote, but may go home | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
and tell their families what they have heard today. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
difference come June the 23rd? That remains to be seen. | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
A man who killed his mother two years ago thought she was a witch | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
after he'd taken so-called legal highs, a court heard today. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
34-year-old Alun Kinney Evans suffered a drug induced | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
psychosis after buying the drugs online. | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
Margaret Evans, a 69-year-old hairdresser, was found beaten | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
to death in the garden of her home in Portstewart. | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
Alun Evans has admitted her manslaughter on the grounds | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
of diminished responsibility, and will be sentenced next week. | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
Now finally the latest weather outlook with Cecilia Daly. | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
It will be 40 in some areas tonight particularly near the East coast. | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
Warm and Maggie everywhere this coming night. Plenty of cloud | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
around. Misty and murky nearly East coast. Showers breaking out widely. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Lots of showers for the Republic of Ireland as well as parts of Wales | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
and south-west England. Showers over Scotland and northern England. It | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
should be dry over the Midlands and the south of England. The chance of | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
some heavy showers and perhaps thunder. As we look ahead to the | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
weekend it will still be close at times, also unsettled, of the two | :13:11. | :13:11. | |
days Saturday will be the drier day. Our next BBC Newsline | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
is at 6.25 in the morning And tomorrow evening at 6.30 we'll | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
be live from Nice as we bring you the very latest in the run-up | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
to Northern Ireland's From all of us here | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
on the programme, goodnight. | :13:26. | :13:31. |