Mr. Raymond McCord:

It shows the influence these people have. My son's headstone has been smashed three times by agents of the state. This is his fourth headstone. I had access to documents all week because I have an up-and-coming court case. I am shouting to people to get into court. By all means, I invite members of the committee to come up and listen to it.

A document on one occasion stated that the UVF said I was a supergrass. It hid the documents; I had to go through the courts to get some of them. The UVF said my house should be shot up. A brigadier - I never met him but he was over south-east Antrim - told those men to shoot up my house. I lived on my own with my youngest son at the time. The police at the debriefing said they could not get the manpower to do it. Those men were afraid to shoot up my house because had I survived, I would have went looking for them. They murdered my son; they were not going to murder another one. I went to the police and made a complaint that when I went to the graveyard, the headstone was smashed to bits. I went straight to the police station and made a complaint. An hour after I left the police station, the police arrested me in case I went to somebody's house. When I told the policewoman who did it, she asked how I found out. I said it was the UVF. They asked how I knew it was the UVF. It was incredible. It was like going back to Chicago and Al Capone. People said Al Capone was a gangster and the cops asked how they knew he was a gangster. Everyone knew he was a gangster by his activities. I turned around and said to the police that I would go to his house and confront him. They asked what I was going to do if he admitted it. I said I would make a citizen's arrest and put him into the car. The told me I could not use violence. I said I would not use violence and that I would just put him into the car, and then I left. The young lad was 15. I took him to a football match and came home. I was sitting there; I did not go to anybody's house, obviously, with the stress. The next minute, there was a knock on the door and two policemen came in. They were pleasant. I thought they were going to give me information about the headstone being broken, being in somebody's house and all. They rang the station and their boss told them to arrest me.

I was arrested and I wanted to know what I was arrested for. The policewoman I made the complaint to was a detective sergeant. She was new in the area and sent to me an officer who turned out to be a special branch officer. The policewoman made a statement that I told her I was going to bring a gun to a man’s house and shoot him. I sat in the interview room. It was a secure police station with sangars. They said that I threatened to shoot a man but she let me walk out. It was to protect the people who had not just murdered my son but who smashed his headstone. That still continues. These amnesties are part of that. They do not want the truth. They do not want the names of the agents who carried out these murders in both communities. They can murder 32 people during a ceasefire and our unionist politicians, who are supposed to represent the people, turn a blind eye to it too. That is what I am saying. They do not just turn a blind eye to what they do with the funding; they turn a blind eye to what they do.