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THE FATHER of a Belfast man murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997 took his campaign to bring the killers to justice to Capitol Hill yesterday.

Raymond McCord (55) told a House of Representatives subcommittee that he believed there was collusion between the security forces and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in the killing of his son, Raymond Jr.