Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“BBC Spotlight’s expose of Sean Murray confirms the utter corruption which has lain at the heart of the ‘peace process’. A corruption which involves both cover up by the authorities and duplicity by the IRA – pretending peace while still arming for terror.
“Unless, as I suspect, such corruption and cover up still dictates the agenda, then, Murray will be arrested over both gunrunning and the Lurgan murders. Today, courtesy of the perverse ‘peace process’ he struts the corridors of Stormont, while his IRA’s victims still grieve their loss. Is he yet another untouchable, like the Sinn Fein leadership he serves?
“Coming on top of the OTR scandal this programme confirms the rotten political skullduggery that rewarded the terror of the IRA.
“If the IRA was still arming, while pretending peace, then, why should anyone believe the Omagh bombing of this time was not also within their orbit of control?
“Those who empowered Sinn Fein and ushered them into government, and sustain them there, should hang their heads in shame.”