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Thread #64837   Message #1066027
Posted By: Fiolar
05-Dec-03 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Northern Ireland What a Joke
Subject: RE: BS: Northern Ireland What a Joke
Further to my recent posting, I came across the following in relation to the killings in NI.
"PSNI confirm Lisburn murder was sectarian

The PSNI confirmed that last weekend's murder in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, of Catholic James McMahon (21) was sectarian. Speaking on Tuesday PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde said his officers were investigating a sectarian motive, adding that the murder was one of the most brutal he had ever seen. "A man was going about his ordinary business, was ambushed and beaten to death with bats. It is the tough end of extreme brutality - mindless violence". The young man, who was the eldest of five children, had just begun a new job with Coca-Cola. During the funeral ceremony, which was attended by a large number of young people, parish priest Fr Seán Rogan said the local community had been "disgusted by the brutality of the murder". He said the "repeated threats to human life, young and old, have filled us with tension and anxiety, but when they spill into killing then we experience a more profound sense of shock at the evil which is being perpetrated". In what the priest described as "a stark contrast" the victim's parents donated their son's organs."

"Father of murdered Ballyclare man resigns from Orange Order

Meanwhile John Allen Snr, whose son John was murdered in Ballyclare, Co. Antrim two weeks ago, resigned from the Orange Order on Tuesday, declaring that he would no longer be involved in an organisation, which claimed his son's killers as members. Mr Allen said the past month had been the worst of his life and he did not want to leave the organisation, which he had been a part of for 28 years but said that, although he had been told the identity of his son's killers by several sources, the PSNI said there was not enough evidence to bring charges against the culprits. Mr Allen said he had visited the McMahon family in Lisburn on Monday night to express his sympathy to a family experiencing the same trauma."

Nothing changes.