The question of which elements of someone's past should outweigh others has featured strongly in the weekend assessments of the veteran loyalist Gusty Spence.

BBC: Selective memories of Martin McGuinness and Gusty Spence

Gusty Spence, who organised the UVF in the 1960s, made the call in the wake of the murder of Bobby Moffett, shot dead by UVF members in May.

BBC: Gusty Spence calls for UVF to disband

If Gusty Spence had not counselled loyalists to follow suit when the IRA announced its ceasefire in 1994 then the course of political history might have run in a very different direction.

BBC: Selective memories of Martin McGuinness and Gusty Spence