LVF leader Billy Wright’s father insisted today there was “firm and final” proof of state collusion in his son’s killing.
He criticised the rules of the inquiry, which he said was not allowed to use the word “collusion”.
Lord Maclean’s report said there was no collusion with the killers.
“It looks like collusion, it sounds like collusion and in my mind amounts to firm and final proof of collusion by state agencies,” David Wright said.
He said that culminated in the murder of his son.
He said the issue of how weapons were smuggled into prison was not properly addressed and a “fatal mistake” was made in not passing information to the prisons minister.
He said the service had been exposed for wrongful acts.
“It is appalling that in a democratic society that a finding has now been made that the (failure to pass on information) by the RUC of various threats against Billy Wright between 1996 and 1997 constituted dreadful acts of omission that facilitated his death,” he added.