the former ruc chief constable sir john hermon continued to dispute the programme's reconstruction of events. the day after transmission he told itn's lunchtime news that the programme was "not at all accurate" and "totally without any credibility". in october 1990 he filed suit for libel against yorkshire television over the way he personally had been portrayed. according to kosminsky the action eventually boiled down to "how much cold tea we had put in jack hermon's brandy glass". the suit was finally settled out of court in june 1992, yorkshire television reputedly having agreed to pay hermon £50,000. "shoot to kill" has never been re-shown, nor released on video or dvd. itv refused to allow it to be included in a retrospective season of kosminsky's work at the british film institute in 2011.