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He presided over an external police inquiry into allegations in Northern Ireland of collusion between the British Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Loyalist terrorists in the murders of Irish Nationalist s. Stevens's third report, published on 17 April 2003 , upheld the claim and explicitly said that Collusion leading to the murder of nationalists (and some Unionists wrongly thought to be Catholic or nationalist) had taken place. In the aftermath of his shock report, David Trimble , the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party , called for a parliamentary inquiry into the collusion, while the leaders of the Social Democratic And Labour Party and Sinn Féin called for a full public inquiry. After his retirement as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on 6 April 2005 he was created a Life Peer as Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, of Kirkwhelpington in the County of Northumberland . Among at least four remunerated company directorships held by him are non-executive directorships of the financial services company Invicta Capital and of Mercer Street Consulting . Stevens also writes for the '' News Of The World '' newspaper. Baron Stevens was appointed Chancellor of Northumbria University on November 28 2005 . EXTERNAL LINK |
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