[4] He was the first prison officer to be killed by dissident Irish republicans since the Good Friday Agreement.

[5] Black was driving to work in Maghaberry Prison when he was shot by members of the New IRA at 7:30 am.

He was on the motorway between Portadown and Lurgan, when a car with Dublin registration plates drove up beside him and fired shots at him, and he veered into a ditch.

[6] The trial of a man charged with aiding and abetting Black's murder collapsed in 2018.

[8] In November 2022, on the tenth anniversary of the murder, Black's widow made a fresh appeal for information on her husband's killers.