Mr. Paul Butler:

To give members some sense of it, there are 25 investigators trying to deal with 400 complaints in respect of murders. Mr. Mickey Brady had brought up the Shankill Butchers. Relatives for Justice, RfJ, represents some of the families and we have lodged a written complaint. The Shankill butchers were a UVF loyalist gang. They operated in the mid-1970s, primarily in north Belfast, and were involved in 30 murders, most, albeit not all, of which were of Catholics. They killed several people who were members of the UDA or UVF and some people who they thought were Catholics but turned out to be Protestants. Believe it or not but they operated within a two or three-mile radius within which all the people were killed. Most of their victims were killed with knives and butcher cleavers and they dragged them, as Mr. Mickey Brady noted, into the back of a black taxi which one of them owned. They had another car and they kept the knives in their own houses. It begs the question, obviously, as to where were the police in this regard, because it happened over a four or five-year period. Families are frustrated because the complaint is among the aforementioned 400 and it has not even been started yet.