Channel 4 News brought Kincora victim Richard Kerr face to face with Brian Gemmell, who worked as an army intelligence officer in Belfast in the 1970s. Mr Gemmell said he put in an official report about Kincora to a senior MI5 officer, but to his astonishment he claims he was ordered to stop digging and forget about it.

Speaking to Mr Kerr, he said: „That‘s the thing that hits me – that if I really pushed the thing through in 75-76, you could have been rescued. I‘m sorry.“ Channel 4 News has contacted MI5 via the Home Office and is awaiting a response to Mr Gemmell‘s claims.