In relation to the top RUC men either not co-operating with Mrs O`Loan or in Ronnie Flanagans case suffering from the early forms of dementia, in 1969 an eldery Derry man Samuel Devenney was attacked in his own home by the RUC, Devenney never recovered from the severe baton attack and died shortly afterwards.
An English detective assigned to the case complained of meeting with " a wall of silence", he encountered what many other English policemen would discover when questioning the RUC, Stevens and Stalker were prime examples of this, nothing has changed.