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The act's most controversial element, the offer of conditional immunity to suspects, was dropped following legal action by bereaved families.

But while claiming he was shy, bereaved or recovering from a bad break-up, McDonald was taking money from them to pay for things that never materialised - from cut-price luxury items to house deposits.

In late 2022, following advice from the inquiry, the Conservative government made interim payments of £100,000 each to about 4,000 surviving victims and bereaved partners.

In August 2022, the government agreed to make the first-ever interim compensation payments of £100,000 to about 4,000 survivors of the scandal or their bereaved partners.

A charity, The Runnymede Trust, tweeted that "the legal system doesn’t deliver real justice for families bereaved by racist state violence".