in February 1979, William Moore's mother personally thanked Nesbitt for taking her son off the streets and putting him into jail. Nesbitt later ruefully commented that "the big fish got away" which was a reference to Murphy and Messrs "A" and "B". He later visited Moore in prison in a futile attempt to persuade him to name those who had escaped being charged with the murders. Years later when Nesbitt was asked by journalist Peter Taylor how much the UVF Brigade Staff had actually known about the Shankill Butchers, he replied that their actions were not punished by the Brigade Staff because its members were afraid of them. The Committee investigation In 1991, after Channel 4 broadcast a documentary claiming that the Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee had been reorganised as an alliance between loyalist paramilitaries, senior RUC members and leader figures in Northern Irish business and finance, Nesbitt and Detective Inspector Chris Webster were appointed by Chief Constable Hugh Annesley to head up an internal inquiry into the collusion allegations. The investigation delivered its verdict in February 1993 and exonerated all those named as Committee members who did not have previous terrorist convictions arguing that they were "respectable members of the community" and in some cases "the aristocracy of the country". He added further that all bar one of the RUC officers named in the programme as having been involved in Committee's "Inner Force" did not actually exist and exonerated the sole real officer, Trevor Forbes. The report claimed that the show had been a hoax perpetrated by a disreputable, unnamed witness, and Nesbitt added that this witness had been active since 1985 when he sold false information about the Inner Force to Martin O'Hagan, who subsequently published it in the Sunday World. McPhilemy denied the veracity of Nesbitt's argument and published a book in 1998 in which he discussed the investigation and also offered further evidence for the existence of the Committee and the Inner Force. McPhilemy argued Nesbitt's investigations had been perfunctory at best, failing for instance to uncover the fact that Jim Sands, the Ulster Independence Committee member who was the chief source for the documentary, was not unknown to one of the Committee's alleged two leading hit-men Billy Wright as Nesbitt had claimed but that rather the two had known each other since school. McPhilemy added that Sands, who had been questioned at some length