The families of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson, loyalist paramilitary Billy Wright and Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill have received copies of the long-awaited Cory Report.
It would now seem that the British government after consultation with the very elements of their own system who engaged in the collusion policy are preparing to release an edited version of the Cory Report.
Ms Bairbre de Brún of Sinn FéinThe British government is expected to publish the report, into alleged security force collusion in paramilitary murders during the eighties and nineties, by tomorrow.
Retired Canadian Supreme Court justice Peter Cory submitted his reports on the four cases to the authorities in London last October, but to the anger of the victims' relatives they have not yet been made public.
A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Office has previously stated the report would be published by the end of March.
Ms Bairbre de Brún of Sinn Féin said: "people will be watching closely the version of the Cory Report which the British government issues".
"It would now seem that the British government after consultation with the very elements of their own system who engaged in the collusion policy are preparing to release an edited version of the Cory Report.
"We have heard nothing yet from the British government to indicate that they are going to speedily move
Michael Finucane
on it recommendations."
Families of three of the four victims - all of whose cases have been dogged by allegations of state involvement in the killings - have been pursuing a legal challenge to force Britain to publish the reports.
Judge Cory has already contacted the families to tell them he has recommended that public inquiries are held into all four cases.
The Finucane case is the longest-running controversy, and a separate report by London police chief has already concluded the security forces could have prevented his death.
Judge Cory also investigated the case of another high profile Catholic lawyer, Rosemary Nelson, who was killed by a car bomb blamed on the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) in 1999.
The other cases he has looked into are Robert Hamill, - a Catholic kicked to death by a Protestant crowd in 1997 - and Billy Wright, the LVF leader shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army inside the Maze Prison the same year.
For reasons of parliamentary privilege, it is believed the families have been told not to disclose the contents of the reports prior to formal publication.