A alleged former Ulster Volunteer Force commander facing 212 charges “can’t make head nor tail” of a huge body of redacted prosecution papers, a Belfast court has heard. Gary Haggarty’s lawyers claimed proceedings which began five and a half years ago could be hit by further delays unless unedited papers are disclosed to them. They want full access to transcripts from his interviews to detectives investigating a campaign of killings, murder plots and other paramilitary crime. Mr Haggarty’s evidence is key to a murder case against two Belfast men accused of killing two Catholics. As legal moves to establish if the 43-year-old will stand trial continue, his barrister challenged...
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