sentences:  At first under intense interrogation, the suspects admitted only to their involvement in the McLaverty abduction but Nesbitt, seizing on McAllister's references to the size of a knife used on McLaverty, had his team of detectives press the case, and eventually most of the gang admitted their part in the activities of the Butchers.Further arrests followed and the overall picture became clearer.The salient point emerging was that Murphy, the commander of the unit, was the driving force behind the cut-throat murders and other criminal activities.