RELATIVES of people killed in the Sean Graham bookmaker's attack have been "re-traumatised" by the arrest of shooting victim Mark Sykes, a victims' group has said.
Footage of Mr Sykes being taken away in handcuffs at an anniversary event on the Ormeau Road last Friday have led to warnings of a nationalist "crisis in confidence" in policing.
Mark Thompson, chief executive of Relative for Justice, said his organisation has been contacted by some of those impacted who "cannot comprehend that this has happened".
He said it has even emerged that police parked a car in the same place where the killer gang's getaway vehicle pulled up outside the bookmaker's shop in 1992.
"What happened has taken the whole community back to what happened 29 years ago - to the carnage of what happened," he said.
"Families have not come to terms with the actions of the PSNI on Friday.
"We have to provide a listening ear and people have been re-traumatised - some of them have not stopped crying since Friday."
The anniversary event came as relatives of those who died had stepped up calls for the results of a Police Ombudsman investigation into the atrocity and other murders carried out by the UDA in south Belfast to be published.
In February 2019 the publication was stalled after it emerged that information previously undisclosed to the watchdog had been found on PSNI computers.
Mr Thompson said relatives have embarked on "a more public dimension to their campaign to secure publication of the report and that includes the making of a 15-minute documentary on all of those events".
"The Police Ombudsman is sitting with a report that is complete. It will be by and large the most damning on collusion ever produced by the Police Ombudsman."
