I have already explained why I felt Sweeney was not in a position to point the finger at soldiers' behaviour.

If you want thread creep, this is what followed one Divis "smacking"

Only after US president Bill Clinton intervened did the IRA admit its Belfast Brigade was responsible for Jean McConville's disappearance.
The Provos had always lied that she was an informer who had run off with a British soldier and was in England.
Helen's real 'crime', her family believe, was to tend a dying soldier hit by an IRA sniper's bullet outside her home in the Divis Flats complex in the Lower Fails.
A neighbour said she put a pillow under his head (the soldier's) and whispered a prayer in his ear.
That act of Christian charity was as good as a death sentence. On December 6, 1972, a gang of thugs sent a false message into a social club where she was playing bingo that Helen had been knocked down by a car.
Jean, who was barely 5ft, was lured outside, pounced on by IRA hoodlums and interrogated, abused and battered. Police later found her wandering barefoot on a bitterly cold night.
The following night she suffered another dose of mob rule. A gang of 12 masked Provos — eight men and four women - burst into her home and dragged her from the bathroom.
She was bundled screaming into a car as some of her children watched. It was the last picture of their mum they have in their minds. The terrified mother, still in pain from the previous night's savagery, was tortured and finally forced to kneel. She was murdered with a single shot.
But a new century was to dawn before the family were able to begin properly mourning her loss
After Jean's abduction, her mother Mary moved in to care for the children over that Christmas, They were later split up and sent to foster homes.
Then in January, 1973, a man delivered Jean's purse to her home with three of her four rings. Police said it was the Provo message that she would not be seen again. It is believed that some Provos thought Jean had suffered enough. Four of her 14 children had died when they were young. She had lost her builder husband Arthur to cancer 10 months before she disappeared.
The Protestant girl from east Belfast was 20 when she met Arthur, a Catholic former British army soldier. She changed her religion. Members of the McConville family know the identities of several of the gang of 12 that dragged their mother away.
They pulled off their balaclavas as the children watched the terrible scene Helen said: "I know at least three of those in the gang who abducted my mother. One lived nearby.