[4] McGrath married his English-born wife Kathleen, who served at the nearby Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade, and the two set up home on the Antrim Road before moving to Finaghy.

[9] Other homosexual paederasts McGrath was close to included Pastor Alan Campbell, John Young of Belfast City Council and Joss Cardwell, a unionist politician who took his life after being questioned by police about Kincora.

McGrath claimed that Northern Ireland was on the verge of chaos and blamed it on the Provisional Irish Republican Army's supposed turn to communism, which he saw as the enemy of Christianity.

[12] His message was also highly anti-Catholic, arguing for instance that the Pope had all nuns and priests as part of his private army and that the Society of Jesus was deliberately destroying Ulster Protestant culture.

[13] Amongst his early converts was Roy Garland, a young Shankill Road native, who claims that on their first meeting McGrath twice felt his leg and extolled to him the virtues of close relationships between men.

[20] In 1966, McGrath produced a series of leaflets in defence of Gusty Spence, the leader of the recently formed Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), who was on remand for the murder of two young Catholics.

McGrath's leaflets alleged that both victims were active communists and claimed that the UVF had been established by members of the Official Unionist Party, with Jim Kilfedder named specifically as being involved.

[22] McGrath was secretary of the Christian Fellowship and Irish Emancipation Crusade (CFIEC) when he appeared with Paisley at a rally in July 1966: this organisation, based in Wellington Park, was a Tara front in which his son Worthington was involved.

[27] McGrath's link-up with the UVF saw his profile and that of Tara rise and by the summer of 1969 he had had to acquire a printing press to meet the demand for tracts, flyers and news-sheets.

[34] Although Tara was not active in paramilitary terms like the UDA and UVF, the group continued to exist during the 1970s and in 1974 McGrath even smuggled in a consignment of guns from the Netherlands for them to use in the event of a "doomsday" scenario, which he predicted was coming soon.

Martin Smyth told police that there had been surprise at McGrath getting a job at Kincora, as he was considered a businessman not a social worker; a William Magowan of Belfast Corporation Welfare department had been key to this appointment.

[47] In his 1999 book The Dirty War, Martin Dillon claims that McGrath may have been employed by MI5 since the 1960s, having possessed an in-depth knowledge of loyalist paramilitarism in Northern Ireland.

[49] Chris Moore argues that McGrath's trade in illicit religious tracts behind the Iron Curtain attracted the attention of MI6, who wanted him to smuggle propaganda into the Eastern Bloc inside the bibles.

[50] From his prison cell in January 1982, McGrath wrote to the Secretary of Ireland's Heritage Lodge (LOL 1303) tendering his resignation, but at their next meeting this was rejected and instead they passed a motion of expulsion against him.