The Governor of the Maze Prison faced fresh calls for his resignation in the Commons yesterday after his admission that he had been "naive" for accepting assurances from INLA and LVF prisoners that they did not intend to attack each other.
Mr Martin Mogg told BBC's Spotlight he had spoken to Billy Wright and INLA leaders about the concerns of prison officers, adding: "We got to the stage where, certainly as far as the two groups were concerned, they were indicating to me that there was a sort of neutrality developing between them and there wouldn't be any attack."
Asked if he had been naive to believe those assurances, he replied: "In retrospect, yes I was."
Mr Jeffrey Donaldson MP said the governor's decision to house LVF and INLA prisoners in the same block "contributed significantly to the circum stances in which the INLA prisoners were able to murder Billy Wright".
The North's Security Minister, Mr Adam Ingram, urged Mr Donaldson and his sources on developments within the Maze to present their evidence to the inquiry established by the Secretary of State.