Johnston Brown had to have his book published in the Dublin by Gill and MacMillan, no publisher in the north of Ireland would chance having the British Government send their vultures in to confiscate the evidence.

In the Dail yesterday Pat Rabbitte TD named Mark Haddock and John Bond as the men responsible for Raymond McCord Junior`s murder.

McCord`s father welcomed TD Rabbitte`s exposure of the two UVF killers, he said," This is only the beginning. The UVF has been controlled by the Special Branch from the 1970s, the Police knew about hundreds of murders before any triggers were pulled".

A Police Ombudsman report on the murder of Raymond McCord Junior is to be published next month. It is expected to recommend prosuctions against six Special Branch Officers who ran UVF members in north and west Belfast.