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Trevor Cooper, DETI’s plainspoken director of finance.
DETI’s head of energy division at the time when RHI imploded was John Mills.
Arlene Foster pictured with wood pellets at Warmflow Engineering alongside managing director Stuart Cousins in July 2014.
Image: Invest NI.
Using computer comparison software, the author found that the only significant change that Stormont made to the GB RHI legislation was to remove these paragraphs on cost control.
DUP chairman Lord Morrow, Arlene Foster and Moy Park’s then chief executive Janet McCollum.
Image: Invest NI.
One of the pieces of marketing in which RHI was literally being marketed as ‘cash for ash’.
Image: RHI Inquiry evidence.
Poultry farmer Tom Forgrave was key to opening up the truth about how Moy Park profited from RHI.
Image: Dept of Agriculture.
DUP chief executive Timothy Johnston, left foreground, being questioned by inquiry barrister Donal Lunny, right, standing.
DETI official Stuart Wightman was a key figure as RHI ran out of control.
DETI official Seamus Hughes was one of the civil servants briefing the industry to tell it that cost controls were coming – before this information was made public.
Moy Park showed some of its farmers this image of a chicken house, with multiple forms of subsidised green energy and a bag labelled swag
Senior civil servant Andrew McCormick at Stomont’s Public Accounts Committee naming Andrew Crawford as the DUP spad allegedly involved in delaying cost controls.
The Stormont Executive in 2016, just months before it fell apart.
Image: NI Executive.
Arlene Foster being interviewed by the author in her Parliament Buildings office on her first day as First Minister, in January 2016.
Janette O’Hagan, the businesswoman who repeatedly attempted to warn DETI about RHI’s perverse incentive, but was ignored.
DUP adviser Timothy Johnston has been the power behind the thrones of successive DUP leaders.
Image: DUP.
Former DUP spad Tim Cairns spoke bluntly at the inquiry, admitting a series of failures.
DUP spad Stephen Brimstone was heating his own home with a non-domestic boiler fitted in an outbuilding.
Arlene Foster’s key adviser, Andrew Crawford.
Inside what Stephen Brimstone described as an ‘agricultural shed’, Ofgem’s inspector found children’s toys and a wood pile.
Image: RHI Inquiry evidence.
All DETI’s key staff working on RHI were replaced in a short space of time, as shown in this staff turnover chart from a PWC report for DETI.
Image: RHI Inquiry evidence.
George Gallagher’s note hand-delivered to Arlene Foster in January 2016 alleging widespread RHI abuse.
Image: RHI Inquiry evidence.
BBC Spotlight reporter Conor Spackman’s programme featured images of him casually tossing cash into a camp fire as he recounted the RHI disaster.
Image: BBC.
Arlene Foster being interviewed by UTV’s Tracey Magee in Beijing on 7 December 2016, the night after Spotlight.
Three days after BBC Spotlight in December 2016, cartoonist Brian John Spencer captured the absurdity at the heart of the RHI scheme.
Prior to being interviewed by Stephen Nolan, Jonathan Bell bent down and was prayed over in the studio.
Unseen by TV viewers, DUP spads Timothy Johnston and Richard Bullick, Stormont press secretary David Gordon and DUP press officer Clive McFarland were in Stephen Nolan’s eyeline as he interviewed Foster.
This image of the Stormont Assembly at 11.48am on 19 December 2016 captures the bizarre scene as the other parties left Arlene Foster to just address DUP MLAs.
The January 2017 News Letter front page that was based on leaked emails, which, unknown to the author, had been leaked by DUP spad John Robinson, left.
This 2016 DUP election leaflet was deeply misleading.
Pictured on the first day when the RHI Inquiry met in public in September 2017 are chairman Sir Patrick Coghlin, centre, Dame Una O’Brien and Dr Keith MacLean.
Arlene Foster being sworn in at the beginning of her evidence to the RHI Inquiry.
Former DUP minister Jonathan Bell, left, arriving with his lawyer at Parliament Buildings in September 2018 to give evidence to the public inquiry.