Mr. Eugene Reavey:

I thank Ms Hanna. Jon Boutcher came to my house. He was accompanied by three or four policemen in a Land Rover. I said, "Jon, will you get rid of them boys from my back door", because having police outside your door in south Armagh is not a very good sign. Jon Boutcher is a proper gentleman and he has attacked all these problems in the proper manner. He has a great oversight team with him. He has people from America, Canada, Germany and everywhere else you could think of to make sure he is sticking to his job. The fact that he got access to all the files is significant. Nobody else got that access, not even the Historical Enquiries Team. He told me that, for the first time ever, he has full access to all the MI5 and MI6 files. That is a big thing. They all agreed that at the start and, even though there was a bit of a pull-back, he finally got it over the line. The team working with him were well versed. They were decent people when they came out. They did not tell me anything I did not know. Through the years, I built up a picture of what happened. The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has now sent these files to the Public Prosecution Service, PPS. Jon Boutcher said that, whether an attempt was made to stop him or not, he was going to visit every family and tell them face to face what he had found. He is in touch nearly every week. If he does not contact us himself, his staff do so. He is very easy to meet and talk to. I met him several times in London when I was over at Westminster. He is a decent man. He will try to get everybody sorted, if he is allowed to do so.