The Cook Report - Worse Than The Mafia S01E02 (1988)

Описание: In Northern Ireland during ‘the troubles’ paramilitaries on both sides made most of their money not
from bank robberies or donations from America, but from extortion on building sites. And since at
that time most of the building work was carried out on behalf of the Government, the British
taxpayer was inadvertently funding terrorists. Builders who refused to pay protection money had
their sites sabotaged, their equipment and materials trashed or stolen and their staff threatened and
sometimes even murdered. Indeed, one of the programme’s brave informants, Jack Kielty, father of
the popular comedian and TV host Patrick, sadly suffered that very fate.

In the first of many secretly filmed TV stings, the Cook Report filmed an armed UDA brigadier
demanding money from its presenter for ‘protecting’ a major, but fictitious development. In the
court case that followed, Brigadier Eddie Sayers was sent down for ten years, largely on Cook Report
evidence. The presiding judge was kind enough to describe the film as ‘brave, skilfully made and
compelling…all in all, an exceptional example of public service broadcasting’. The programme
returned to investigate both UDA and IRA paramilitaries in Ulster several times.

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