Mr. John Teggart:

Mr. Maskey asked what it was like and how we coped after our loved ones were murdered and their names tainted. It was very hard, I must say. I was an 11-year-old boy at the time and I grew up angry about what had happened. There was obviously not much I could have done, as an 11-year-old. I heard my mummy crying in the night time. She tried to be strong for the families. There were 13 of us and we were split up to different sisters and things like that to try to help in some way. I went to my sister, Alice's. Others went to live with Bernie, some to live with Margaret. The family split up as a mechanism of coping and sharing the pain.

Things like these affect people differently. Some were determined to get the truth. Others experienced mental health issues. However, we got there through hard work. As Mr. Finucane said, we have corrected history. The British Government has walked away from its responsibilities. We need a strong co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement. We need more pressure than words. We have a strong friend in America at the minute from which support can be sourced. There is a lot of support. At the same time as the British were going to interfere with the Good Friday Agreement, there were some words about what can be done. Those are the kinds of things we need to be doing. I hope that we get where we want, for all the families concerned. We will strongly oppose an amnesty and that goes for the families of all victims.