Who will pay for mass murder?

So that’s it then. The popular press and political consensus following Nuala O’Loan’s Report is as follows: a small group of RUC Special Branch officers went overboard when running their informers in one small area in north Belfast.

Up to 15 murders and an unknown number of other crimes resulted - but it won’t happen again.

Many very senior officers, including two (there were only five) former deputy RUC chief constables refused to ...