The following is the prepared oral testimony of Raymond McCord Sr. to the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, today [Thursday].

Mr McCord has led a campaign to expose British collusion in the death of his son, Raymond Mc Cord Jr. The 22-year-old Protestant man was murdered in 1997 near Belfast to protect a Crown force agent within the unionist paramilitary UVF.