A legal challenge of a decision to shelve an investigation into a notorious loyalist gang will begin in Belfast today.
The Glenanne Gang is believed to have been involved in the murders of up to 120 innocent Catholics across Mid Ulster in the 1970s.
It included members of the RUC, UDR and UVF.
A judicial review is being taken by Eddie Barnard, whose 13-year-old brother Patrick who was one of four Catholics killed when a bomb ripped through the Hillcrest Bar killed in Dungannon in Co Tyrone in 1976.
The case has been taken against the PSNI chief constable over a decision to shelve an Historical Enquiries Team report into the activities of the gang.
It is understood former Scotland Yard detective and HET investigator Steve Morris has claimed that the 'thematic review' of Glenanne killings was 80 per cent complete when the decision to halt it was taken in 2010.
Eddie Barnard believes there was collusion in his brother’s murder.
“We are only now beginning to get to the truth. My family, and the families of all the 120 people who died in this series of murders, have a right to know as much of the truth as can still be discovered about our loved ones' murderers,” he said.
Solicitor Darragh Mackin from KRW Law said the Glenanne killings “verify the case of a state practice of collusion, combining direct involvement in murder, a failure to prevent murder, and a want of due diligence in its investigation”.
Lethal Allies author Anne Cadwallader, from the Pat Finucane Centre, also claimed there was a “deliberate policy of encouraging and tolerating loyalist murder”.
