Your reporter in Belfast
A local reporter, Jon Rose, is supposed to help, but like much of Belfast would rather the fruits of the Peace dividend than the animosity of the past. Far less likelihood of well-frequented watering holes being bombed and otherwise defiled. Comfortable places for the news fraternity to meet and pass the time.
A meeting with Isaac Hepburn, easily and immediately recognised amongst the UVF hierarchy in the photo, is arranged. Amongst the tit-bits he offers there is a hint of Peter Lyons relishing direct involvement in brutality, followed by a clear demand for one thousand pounds for the information given so far. Three killings fit the time frame when Lyons was in Belfast and one is different to the others – different in more ways than one.