DRUG dealer David Jenkins claims UDA ‘C’ Coy bosses tried to lure him back to Shankill last week just days after being told the terror gang planned to murder him. The 41-year-old refused, telling the Sunday World: “I won’t be the next Alan McCollough.”Jenkins, a cocaine kingpin who claims to have made the gang millionsContinue reading “UDA drug dealer feared he’d be ‘the next Alan McCullough’”
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Groomed by the UVF
ARMED with a flick bat and wearing a balaclava, 16 year-old Martin Smyth knew what he was about to do was very, very wrong. Along with three other teenagers, he was under UVF orders to “put out” a foreign national family who had just moved to Belfast. “The senior (UVF) ones said they were involvedContinue reading “Groomed by the UVF”
‘I want to clear my father’s name. In my eyes he was murdered in the street in cold blood…it’s time for the truth’
IT’S been just over 47 years since west Belfast man Stan Carberry last saw his father. “I can remember it well,” the 55 year-old recalled. “I was eight years-old at the time and myself and my brother and sisters were all getting ready for school, the six of us running around, and he was trying to get usContinue reading “‘I want to clear my father’s name. In my eyes he was murdered in the street in cold blood…it’s time for the truth’”
‘I knew Stephen was struggling but he’d so much to live for. We will be a voice for those suffering’
THE best friend of late radio star Stephen Clements has vowed to use his memory to help those struggling with mental health issues. Larry Goodey, the BBC presenter’s close pal of 30 years, said he hoped Stephen’s legacy would be giving a voice to those who “feel they have nowhere to go”. In a powerfulContinue reading “‘I knew Stephen was struggling but he’d so much to live for. We will be a voice for those suffering’”
Masked UVF thugs stormed Ian Ogle’s place of work a year before murder
MURDERED loyalist Ian Ogle predicted his own death after masked UVF thugs stormed his place of work a year before he was butchered in the street. The east Belfast thugs followed the dad-of-two (45) to his window fitting job, smashed up a car he was travelling in before ordering colleagues to force the father outContinue reading “Masked UVF thugs stormed Ian Ogle’s place of work a year before murder”
‘I was told that if I’d been raped, I’d get over it – but I’d never get over terminating my pregnancy’
Last year I carried out an investigation into how anti-abortion protesters were confronting women using Belfast’s Marie Stopes Centre. The article received a lot of feedback, with most shocked at the tactics used by some’pro-life’ campaigners. Following this month’s High Court case involving one activist challenging a harassment notice served on her by the PSNI, I thought I’dContinue reading “‘I was told that if I’d been raped, I’d get over it – but I’d never get over terminating my pregnancy’”
Patricia Devlin 