Unquestionably the unfortunate McLaverty did survive and did identify his assailants from a police car. But what were the RUC and all the intelligence forces doing in the months while the Shankill Butchers were operating more or less openly out of well-known paramilitary drinking haunts? As Martin Dillon has pointed out: …it is clear that many policemen compromised their neutrality by continuing to frequent and socialise in premises controlled by the paramilitaries. In the Shankill area the UDA often killed people in illegal drinking clubs and were not concerned about leaving traces of the
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