There has been much reporting and commentary, both in Britain and in Ireland north and south, about the findings of the investigation of police ombudsman Marie Anderson into ‘collusive behaviour’ between the police and loyalist/unionist paramilitaries during the 1990s. The ombudsman said she was ‘deeply concerned’ by the failure to investigate murders carried out by the UDA in the 1990s. Files about the attack on Sean Graham’s bookies on the Ormeau Road were deliberately destroyed and the way Special Branch used informers who had been involved in murders was ‘totally unacceptable’.