Speaking to An Phoblacht about Patten's omission, Barbara Loughran, whose husband Paddy was killed in Sinn Féin's Sevastopol Street office, said: ``At the time, the RUC tried to deny responsibility for the murders by claiming that because the officer was off duty and used his own weapon they could not be held responsible.''
Belfast High Court, however, has ruled that the RUC have a duty of care to the families of those Moore killed and injured.
On the morning of the attack, Moore left Newtownabbey RUC barracks with his licensed automatic shotgun, despite the fact that he had refused to see a psychiatrist for assessment regarding an incident the previous weekend when he fired shots over the grave of dead RUC friend while in a drunken state.
When An Phoblacht contacted the Policing Commission, we were told that in the case of the Sevastopol Street killings, there was confusion surrounding the man involved and the fact that he was off duty.
``In the case of Pearse Jordan there appears to have been a typing error,'' we were told.
Hugh Jordan has responded furiously to this claim, branding the entire Commission a ``joke''.
He also points out that the report claims that 16 people were killed by plastic bullets but the real total stands at 17. ``The report, with all of these errors, went out all over the world,'' he says. ``Are they going to send out a revised and corrected edition? Even if they do this, it will be unable to correct the political damage that the report has done. Clearly Patten has gone in with a political agenda and has ignored the victims of the RUC.''
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