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🗓️ 30 January 2025
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Top detectives race to untangle a web of lies behind the murders. But just as they’re about to arrest a key loyalist suspect, their secure office containing top-secret evidence goes up in flames. They hear whispers that a clandestine unit of the British army could be behind the sabotage. All to protect one man – a man Cara reveals is a vicious fighter with a shadowy past.
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0:32.1 | Before we begin, I want to let you know that this episode contains a description of torture. |
0:38.7 | There are many times reporting this story when I wish I'd been in the room. |
0:43.7 | It's one of the drawbacks of looking into something that began decades ago. |
0:48.0 | You have to rely on other people's experiences. |
0:51.7 | I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at the York Hotel in Belfast back in January |
0:56.4 | 1990. It's a cold and drizzly Tuesday at noon. Inside the hotel, there's a quiet smoky bar |
1:07.1 | where a top loyalist fighter called Brian Nelson is... |
1:11.1 | Chain smoking players number six, these hideous little cigarettes that he smoked all the time. |
1:18.3 | And he was drinking vodka. |
1:21.6 | Brian's the head of intelligence for the Ulster Defence Association, or UDA, the biggest |
1:27.3 | loyalist paramilitary. |
1:29.4 | He's a short man with mousy brown hair and a grim reputation. |
1:35.6 | He was a very unpleasant individual. |
1:38.2 | Small man's syndrome that wanted to prove that he was capable of carrying out heinous crimes. |
1:44.4 | He was a drinker, he was a psychopath, he got convictions for violence, |
1:48.0 | and attempted murder. |
1:49.7 | He's there to meet reporter John Ware from BBC Panorama. |
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