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An Analysis of IRA Murdersin North Armagh 1986-1999



SERIATStAU@HTERAn Analysis of IRA Murdersin North Armagh 1986-1999

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Terrorist Victims Human Rights Committee, Lurgan 1999



Pubtished in 1999 by

Terrorist Victims Human Rights Committee

Brownlow House, Windsor Avenue,

Lurgan, Co. Armagh,Norlhern Ireland BT67 9BI

o TVHRC. 1999

All rights reserved.

Photographs courtesy of Pacemaker Press, Photopress anal related families

This booklet is dedicated generally to sll those

British citkens and innocent victims who have

lost their lives in the terrorist conflictover the past thirty years.

In particular it is a tribute to the long-suffering

families of those murdered or maimed in Upper Bannby Irish Nationalist/IRA Tetorists, who still await

true peace and justice.

(Front cover pic.) The removal of the bodies of Constables Graham and Johnston from Church Walk, Lurgan

SERIAT SIAUOHTER

From 1986, when the North Armagh Brigade of the PIRA brutallykidnapped and murdered David McVeigh from Lurgan, a reign of

psychopathic terror has remained in Upper Bann until the present time.

McVeigh, who was a leading local Provisional with two brothers servinglong terms of imprisonment for terrorist offences, was taken,interrogated, beaten, forced to confess to being an informer and then

mercilessly shot. His body was then callously dumped by the roadsidein South Armagh near Flagstaff Hill between Newry and Dundalk.

Having obviously secured their internal security by this brutal killing,the IRA then went about putting together a gang of potential murderersin the Lurgan area.

In 1999, this gang of psychopathic serial murderers remains atlargeand following at least another sixteen killings over an eleven-year period,

not one member of this perverse group has been successfully convicted.

Their toll of human misery and their efl'ect on the greater communitycannot be underestimated. Their rule of terror and fear has reached

over a wide area and their legacy has left nothing but sorrow, pain, hurtand despair in its wake.

Their list of brutal murders provoked retaliation from Loyalistparamilitaries, leading to a series of revenge killings, which has ruinedcommunity relations and left suspicion and fear in abundance.



Last Seventeen Unsolved Murdersin Upper Bann by the IRA 1986 to 1999

10/9/86 McVEIGH, David IRA Beaten and ShotTakenfrom home in Lurgan. Body found in Killeen,Co. Armagh. Alleged informer

I3/T2/88 CORRY, John Protestanr ShotMurdered at work in Portadown.

18/T0/89 METCALF, Roy Protestant Shor

Murdered in his home at Maralin outside Lurgan.

23/9/90 McCULLOUGH, Colin UDR Shor

Murdered while in his car with girlfriend at Oxford Islandoutside Lurgan.

I0/ll/90 MURPHX David

DOWEY, KeithShot

Shot

Shot

Shot

murdered together

Shot

RUC

Protestant

KENDALL, Norman Protestant

TAYLOR, Tom RUCThe four friends and wildfowlers were

at Castor Bay outside Lurgan.

20/12/90 WETHERS, Wilfred RUC

18/5/93 HEADLEX Dennis CatholicFound shot in car at Bleary, outside

Murdered coming home from work, Lurgan/Waringstown Road.

I9lll/92 WARNOCK, IanUDR

ShotMurdered leaving work in Portadown.

Shot

Lurgan.

Shot4/6/93 LYNESS, John UDRM urde re d c omin g home fro m w o rk o ut s ide hi s hou s e in Lurg an.

13/5/94 ANTHONY, Fred Protestant

Murdered by a booby trap car bomb

outside his home in Lurgan.

Booby Trap

which exploded

ShottI/96

16/6/97

LYONS, Ian Catholic

Murdered outside home in Lurgan.

GRAHAM, John RUC Shot

JOHNSTON, David RUC Shot

The above constables were murdered together on duty in

ChurchWalk - off Church Place, Lurgan.

17/2/98 CONWAX Kevin Catholic Beaten and ShotTakenfrom home in Lurgan. Body found in Aghaleeoutside Lurgan.

The location of the I 6 murders caried out by the same IRA serial killer gang from i 988 to 1999

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What started by this gang as several botched murder attempts in the

Lurgan area finally led, in December 1988, to the cold-blooded murder

of iProtestant in Poftadown at his place of work'

The gang, consisting of a driver and two gunmen, shot John corry in

his garage in the Edenderry district of Portadown.

This first sectarian killing by this gang was to set a pattern for these

serial killers to repeat many times over the next eleven years.

With the exception of 1991 and 1995, when circumstances were not

suitable, these same assassins have murdered at least once every year

since 1988. In 1990 alone they murdered at least six people. Their

despicable,calculated murders and vicious self-control, seemingly

allowed ease of access to kill with impunity year after year. Now as we

prepare to enter a new millennium, no end to their blood letting appeals

in sight, despite their atrocities beginning in the late 1980s'

The decentpeople of UpperBann currently waitwith fgqq!trepidation

to see who the next victlm of these psychopathic serial killers will be'

A detailed study of the last sixteen killings shows different vicious

patterns that have emerged about this gang of cold-blooded murderers'

Five of the victims were shot at close range as they sat in their car. Ten

of the victims were also shot at very close range with a mixture of

rifles, handguns and a shotgun.

This psychopathic trend to get close to the victim reputedly increases

the thriil the perpetrator his to have when committing vile acts of

slaughter. On bne occasion an under-car booby trap bomb was used to

kill the innocent victim. Another UDR part-time soldier was also

maimed by the same method.

In October 1989, three gunmen entered the isolated bungalow of Lurgan

Protestant businessmatt Mt Roy Metcalf and shot him in front of his

wife and young daughter as he relaxed watching TV. They had now

plummeted to the depths of inhumanity and pure evil' Roy Metcalf, murdered in his home, I 8 October, 1989



After this horrendous sectarian murder, committed in the victim's home

in front of his family, there was no level of satanic brutality that this

gang would not stoop to.

By 1990 this IRA gang was experienced as akilling machine. They had

a pure sectarian hatred for all things Protestant and British. It was

September of that year that the pattern of serial killing was beginning

to emerge. Within eight weeks, six more local Protestant men lay dead,

all shot by this same gang.

The first to die that winter, was a young part-time UDR soldier who

was sitting in his car with his girlfriend at Oxford Island, a nature reserve

just north of Lurgan beside Lough Neagh. Colin McCullough was

brutally shot and died at the scene. His distraught girlfriend was left to

flee in the darkness to seek help in this very isolated, lonely place.

It is worth pointing out that Loyalist gunmen retaliated in kind by

murdering a young Nationalist in the same area in similar fashion within

weeks.

As the cycle of violence and tension continued, a massacre that was to

stun the entire community for its enormity, tookplace on 10 November

1990.

On this occasion the murderers lay in wait, with death in their hearts, to

ambush and kill a party of Protestant wildfowlers who normally used

the area near Castor Bay for their recreation.

The first to arrive and the first to die was Mr Tom Taylor, a part-time

reserve policeman. The other three victims were David Murphy, a

policeman, and his friends Keith Dowey and Norman Kendall.

All four men were Protestants, local and perceived to be British, and

therefore legitimate targets for the warped sectarian murderers.

This massacre, supposedly in the cause of Nationalist Ireland, led to

widespread revulsion. The actual fact that four Protestant friends had

been gunned down together led to total shock and disbelief, not only in Colin McCullough, murderetl in his car at Oxford Island, Lurgan' 23 Septembcr I 990



Northern Ireland but also across the whole of the United Kingdom and

internationally.

Roman Catholic neighbours openly expressed their shame and contacted

some of the families, naming both those who planned and those who

carried out the murders.

It was a totally surreal time for both communities as the pro-British

Unionist community was in shock and trauma. Meanwhile the

Nationalist community awaited retaliation from the Loyalistparamilitaries.

The families of the four wildfowlers, as they became known, were left

to grieve and suffer in silence in the hope that someone would finallybe brought to justice.

What followed though, was confirmation that the satisfaction that these

psychopathic killers required had not been met by the mass murder ofthe four Protestant friends.

In the week before Christmas, a three-man killer gang consisting of a

driver and two gunmen struck again. This time the victim was WilfredWethers, a policeman, coming home from completing his duty at Lurgan

RUC station.

The getaway car was stationed on the verge of the main Lurgan -

Waringstown Road. Inside it sat an unmasked driver. Two gunmen

ambushed Constable Wethers at close range as he drove down the short

lane leading to his home. Mr Wethers died in his car at the scene.

By now the killers had murdered at least eight people in just over twoyears. Alarm bells should have been ringing in high government circles

that this level of violence was spiralling out of control. The silence was

deafening!

A lull occurred in the local murders as intensive security focused on

the area, but incredibly not one single person had been charged withany of the killings. Keith Dowey, one of the four wildfowlers who were murdered at Castol Bay, Lurgan, 10 November 1 990

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In 1990, the North Armagh Brigade of the IRA was having internalproblems and several informers were put out of the area during thisperiod. Exile was their punishment.

It would appear there was one law for friends and relatives of this murdergang and another more brutal law for informers outside their circle.They ended up dead, like David McVeigh in 1986.

While murders continued in adjoining areas of East Tyrone and SouthArmagh, locally in the Craigavon area the lull continued. This was dueto doubt and fear existing in the minds of the local Provisionals whosuspected that the Security Forces had recruited several informers.

For a long period of time now the North Armagh Brigade, especially in

the greater Lurgan area, had been losing weapons in planned SecurityForce searches. Questions were beginning to be asked.

In fact the NorthArrnagh Brigade in Lurgan lost more weapons in threeyears around this time, than the SouthArmagh Brigade IRA would losein almost twenty years of very active terrorism.

By November l992the gang had got the confidence of their superiorsto strike again. This resulted in the horrific shooting of part-time UDRman Ian Warnock.

MrWarnock had his child with him as he called to collect his wife fromwork at Seagoe Industrial Estate, which is on the east side of Portadown.

He was shot in his car in front of his young child. Before he died, MrWarnock returned fire and wounded one of the gunmen. Despite this,

once again, no one was ever charged with the murder.

Like their first murder of John Corry in December 1988, the gang tooka similar route back to the neighbouring town of Lurgan. With thisrecent successful killing under their belt, the murderous confidence ofthe serial killers was on a high.

Tom Tay)or, one ofthe four wildfowlers who were murdered at Castor Bay, Lurgan, l0 November 1990

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within six months another body was found. This time the victim was

Dennis Headley who was found shot in his car in Bleary, south of

Lurgan. One can only presume his death was the result of a personal

dispute.

He became the first of three Roman Catholic victims of the gang. Neither

Mr. Headiey's murder nor those of his two co-religionists, were claimed

by the Provisional IRA. Only the Protestant victims were deemed worthy

of acknowledgement by the gang and their PIRA leaders.

It was obvious by now that a dangerous psychopathic trend was well

established. The gang of serial murderers was now extremely active in

the area.

Within weeks the pack of killers struck again. This time their boldness

beggared belief. It happened in Lurgan, and their victim was a

defenceless, retired UDR man who worked at the local swimming pool.

Johnny Lyness was well known in the town and was a very friendly

pleasant man who had served his community for many years.

While walking home from work he was callously shot down by one of

two unmasked gunmen. They were dressed in cycling gear and had

been loitering outside his home.

To make their escape, the two assailants cycled away from the scene

through the local park. The fact that both were unmasked is, in terrorist

terms very unusual, leaving both open to identification by anyone who

saw them. They must have had complete confidence in their ability to

escape from the scene. Remember they had stationed themselves at the

scene of this murder for a considerable length of time. It was broaddaylight, this was a unionist area of Lurgan, their faces were uncovered.

Was this a flash of extreme recklessness or was there a more sinister

explanation?

Questions were now being asked by the British-Unionist population of

Lurgan and further afield, about why murdet after murder was going

on unchecked.

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An army landrover near the scene of the Castor Bay murders

The scene at Castor Bay where the multiple murders took place



Following the appearance of several witnesses, a man was charged withthe above murder. After a long period on remand, the case finally came

to trial and the man was convicted.

Undaunted this group of dedicated killers had struck again, this timeby a different method. Fred Anthony, a local Protestant, was driving to

work early on 13 May l994.Mr Anthony's family were with him in the

car. An under-car bomb exploded killing FredAnthony and injuring his

family. Neighbours gazed in horror at the mangled remains of the car

containing the victim and his young family. An elderly woman nearby

was blown off her feet by the explosion. Miraculously, the wounded

child survived but only by the grace of God was the death toll not higher.

By now the tragic death toll was rising but within days of the convictionof a man for the Johnny Lyness murder, there was abizanrle twist to the

case. One of the two key witnesses whose evidence had helped secure

the conviction was himself arrested and charged with conspiracy relating

to a terrorist charge.

Supposedly after trying for many years to trap the members of the killergang, the Security Services themselves discredited akey witness withindays.

Cynical observers had long since predicted the release of any suspect

connected with all these murders on the suspicion that somewhere a

hidden hand was at play.

As anticipated after a very high profile campaign to secure the release

of the convicted person, the appeal was successful and the suspected

murderer walked free.

After eight years, twelve people had been brutally murdered within a

radius of approximately eight miles and incredibly no one had been

successfully convicted. This must have served as a great incentive forthese practised murderers to continue with their killing spree. After so

many years it was unlikely that they would ever be caught.

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Wilfred Weihers, murdered coming home from work, Warin€lstown Road, Lurgan, 20 December 1990

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It is little wonder that the victims' families were beginning to doubt the

credibility of the continuing investigations into these atrocities.

The triumphant homecoming to Lurgan of the alleged suspect brought

total despiir to the British-Unionist population and led to rapturous joy

and elation within the Nationalist Roman Catholic population.

By now the cease-fires by both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries

t"-"r" ropposedly in place and everyone should have been looking to a

better furure. SaOty no atmosphere of peace or cease-fire ever existed

in Upper Bann.

Within a short space of time Moira, Portadown and Banbridge were all

blownup by Republicans and the murders by this same group were to

continue.

Using the cover name of DAAD, Direct Action Against Drugs, the

Proviiional lRA had killed several people across Northern Ireland, when

murder returned to Lurgan.

The New Year of 1996 had just started and on 2 January,Ian Lyons, a

local Roman Catholic, was shot outside his home near the Old

Portadown Road. For the first time, a shotgun was used as the murder

weapon.

It made a mockery of the cease-fire and confirmed what many cynics

had been saying, that the intentions of the Provisionals were both sinister

and strategic.

Again the murder of a fellow Roman Catholic for personal reasons

sh-ows how the killers' blood lust had taken hold again. With another

close quarter assassination in front of the victim's family, the depths of

man'slnhumanity to his fellow man had been trawled again'

What had this senseless murder got to do with uniting Ireland or

furthering the cause of Irish Nationalism? It portrays vividly how

depraved the activities of the gang had become.

Ian Warnock, murdered leaving work in Portadown, 19 November 1992

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With at least thirteen local murders now behind them, their violent

behaviour and paranoid state of mind was sheltering behind the cover

of Irish patriotism.

By the start of 1997, the cause of Irish Nationalism had to be far from

the thoughts of this band of murderers. They were now experienced,

dedicated assassins who, apparently at will, could kill if and when they

pleased.

People who were suspicious about the murderous activities had kept

their thoughts suppressed for many years. By June of 1991 the next

atrocity was to raise even more questions than answers.

On 16 June two community policemen were returning to the RUC station

on foot, in Church Walk, only a matter of yards from the gates. Both

officers were experienced, and yet from nowhere, in broad daylight,

two gunmen suddenly appeared and in cold blood, shot both officers

from behind. The two officers, John Graham and David Johnston, were

well known and liked by many in the community. The huge crowd who

gathered at the scene of the double murders to pay tribute showed the

revulsion felt towards their assassins.

Yet again another murderous attack in Lurgan by the same band ofpsychopaths had shocked Norther:n Ireland and the civilised world. In

particular the Washington Administration, which had placed so much

faith in the IRA cease-fire, felt betrayed.

Year after year, murder after murder, families were left to grieve with

no end to the slaughter in sight.

Within days a suspect had been amested and subsequently charged. Ithappened to be the same man who had been charged with the Johnny

Lyness murder and again eyebrows were being raised about what was

going on.

This time there was one key witness to the killing, but after a relatively

short time all charges were dropped.John Lyness, murdered outside his home after work in Lurgan, l4 June 1993

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This sequence of events was entirely predictable and seasoned observers

felt it was only a matter of time before any suspect would be released,

regardless ofhow rigorous the legal system appeared to be'

The shock at the brutal double murders was both genuine and

*id"rp."ud. It again reminded people of the brutal castor Bay murders

n"urfy r.u"r, y"uir before by theiame North Armagh IRA band of killers.

Yet since December 1988, this gang had been consistently butchering

people with a ruthlessness that normal people could not comprehend.

ihe vicious cycle of violence was still not over'

ByFebruarylgg8,theorgyofmurderchangedinitsnatureandinits

viciousness.

The victim this time was a Roman Catholic man, Kevin Conway, from

a local housing estate in North Lurgan. The reason for his brutal killing

wourd appear" to have been personal and linked to protection and

financiafrackets. True to form, the Provisional lRA did not claim the

killing, as it could not be justified under any circumstances.

This time the victim was taken from his home, leaving the children he

had been looking after helpless and vulnerable. Sadly for Mr Conway

there was no return as he was bound, beaten and shot. His body was

found at nearby Aghalee in a derelict house' The local Sinn Fein/IRA

immediately taia tire blame for the killing on Loyalist Paramilitaries'

Their statement was designed to divert attention away from the

Provisional serial killers who had struck agan'

The murder of Mr conway broughtto seventeen the number of local

tiffing, committed by one of the most dedicated bands of murderers to

"*".i"over the lastihirty years of the Northern Ireland conflict.

When one looks at notorious serial killer gangs both locally, nationally

and internationally, the pack of ctazed psychopaths operating out of

the Lurgan area, compares with the worst'

Fred Anthony,

murdered by a booby trap car bomb

on his way to work in Lurgan,

l3 May 1994

The remains of the wrecked cr at the scene

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There is

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Amazingly, this gang has been committing theirkillings overan eleven-

y"u, p"rioO'and i'as Jomehow gone unnoticed in terms of media profile'

tn"rf is also no explanation why both the local security forces and the

local politicians have not been highlighting their existence over the

past decade.

If-over ten years, a gang of serial killers had murdered seventeen people

in Swansea, Edinbur:gh or London' the outcry would have been

deafening. yet somehoi" th"r" murders appear to have been acceptable

because ihey took place in Norlhern Ireland'

a responsibility on the Prime Minister and government to

life and the families of those murdered expect no less'

These murderers should be caught, tried and convicted regardless of

any political process. Even if 11'"y *" released following conviction

au! to the "Belfast Deal" of April 1998, several of the murders are non-

poiiri.ur and should be viewed as such. A conviction and release on

iir"n"" would be better than no conviction at all'

It would also open up the possibility of examining the psychopathic

mental state of ihe gang, anb confirm that they are an ongoing threat to

the communitY.

The most sacred right of all is the right to life and in all these cases that

.igt t *u, brutally lxtinguished. Thls was a group of murderers using

th? guise of Irish patrioiism as their excuse and as cover for their evil

activities.

It is believed locally that up to five gunmen in totalmay have parlicipated

in the different kiilings. iher" killers are in turn helped by up to two

io""nmore peopte rino have sinned against their.souls by shedding

innocentblooO una participating in a catalogue of evil terror over eleven

years.

Now, in order to prevent another eleven years of horrof, this booklet

has been produced so that the British Government and the Security

Forces must realise that the current situation is not acceptable' lan Lyons, murdered outsidc home in Lurgan, 2 January 1 996

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These people must be brought to justice if any sort of normality is ever

to retuin to ttre families whose loved ones wefe murdered by this gang'

It is generally believed that the perpetrators have a blood lust that cannot

be sitisfied and their degenerate li^f'estyle of violence and abuse coupled

with media accusatio"ns of sexual impropriety leaves the whole

community in fear.

Despite the allegations that several members of this gang had moved

into gangsterisri and been involved in sexual offences, no firm action

bt ,ft Ift.A leadership was taken against these people' who in other

IRA circles would have been executed without favour'

Former heads of the RUC and successive senior police officershave

failed the victims' families in particular and society in general by their

inability to apprehend, for all these years, this particular set of murderers'

The serial slaughter by IRA assassins from Lurgan needs to become a

p.iotlty"ur"

foi all branches of the Security Forces -untl"instruction

ior ttreir removal from society must come from the Prime Minister

d;*"tly without delay. No longer can this disgraceful state of affairs be

allowed to continue'

The Prime Minister, MrTony Blair, has a God given duty to protect his

citizens and must act alonce to end this nightmare of terror.

Whatever resources are needed must be provided in order to resolve

these cases. This history of murderous slaughter must be brought to an

end immediatelY.

The murdcr sccne in Church Walk, Lurgan, following the shooling of Constables John Graham and David iohnston.

16 June 1997

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It is felt that the following requirements are vital to successfully conclude

all these cases:

1. At least fifteen police officers from the mainland to bring fresh

impetus and ideas to bear on the cases. These should include officers

with previous experience of serial killers and similar gangs.

2. A top DNA forensic scientist with detailed knowledge of all modern

testing techniques to update all forensic evidence that currently

exists.

(The families believe that a top-class specialist in this field willlead to the breakthrough required to solve these cases.)

3. The involvement of a top criminal psychologist to analyse thepattern of murder over the eleven years.

Those that have been brutally murdered and their families deserve no

less than the above in order to bring peace of mind.

So many questions need to be asked about the gross neglect those in

authority have demonstrated in the handling of these murderous

activities over the years.

When one hears of human rights, one can only recall what one widow

said regarding this Irish Nationalist death squad:

"What happened to me was neither human nor was it right,"

How fashionable it is, unfortunately, for leading professional people,

writers, politicians and so-called human rights activiststo become the

champions of cold-blooded, ruthless murderers.

Yet those who have suffered most of all, the families of those murdered,

sentenced to a life of suffering, the maimed - crippled forever - somehow

their pain and suffering are of minimal importance.

Family photogrrph ol'John Graham while on holiday in Scotland

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This pamphlet is simply a catalogue of pain and sorrow. It is designed

to trigtrtlg^ht these murders and make those in authority pause and reflect

on a tragic securitY failure.

It is a horrific reminder of the satanic evil, which proudly struts our

towns and countrY roads.

It is a tragic reminder of an existing gang of psychopathic serial killers

murderirrt at will for over ten yeals without any justice for the families

left bereaired. Without such justice, there can be no healing process'

The events of Upper Bann, mir:rored right across Northern Ireland, are

a gross indictment of an obscene security policy that. has allowed

murderers to prosper to the detrimentof their innocent victims.

There can be no doubt that serious questions need to be both asked and

answered, about why this gang was allowed to kill at will over the last

eleven years.

If you believe that something has to be done to stop these psychopaths

from killing again, the person ultimately responsible for security is the

Prime Minister.

We believe that by writing to Mr Tony Blair, Prime Minister, 10

Downing Street, London swlA 2AA, about these murdels you can

highlighl in a positive way your feelings about this tragic situation.

The grief and the pain of those affected is never going to go away but

by trigtrllghting that these dangerous psychopaths.are still at large it

*uy,Ins6me small way, help prevent them from killing again'

one can only hope that these particular killers will someday be brought

to account for their foul deedi, if not in this life then surely in the next'

In the meantime, to sit and do nothing is to passively condone their

actions. Hopefully rhis booklet sheds some ligtrtinto ft9 dqf,murderous

history of airocities car:ried out in the name of Irish nationalism in Upper

Bann.

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by one of David Johnston's two sons.

This booklet is designed to raise awareness regarding a group ofpsychopathic serial killers

who have perhaps murdered up to sixtcen people over the last clcven years.

Starting in 1988 and up to the present time, not one persor has becn successiully convicted

for any of these murders carricd out in the name of Irish Nationalism. It asks disturbing

questions about multiple murders and tlueries what has been going on.

Why has no-one been convicted dcspitc sixteen murders being committed in one small

area?

Why, over the last eleven years, was no outside help and specialist personnel brought in to

help solve these killings?

Why has no Jeading politician highlighted the fact that a gang of serial killers has been

killing at will for over a decade?

Why do the Provisional IRA appear helpless to stop the flow of information and weapons

to the security lorces in this area during the past decade?

Why have up-to-date DNA forensic techniques not led to successful prosecutions'?

Would psychological profiling of suspects help lead the aulhorities to understand the

motivation, personalities and identity of the serial killers?

At this stage there are more questions than answers. but lhe booklet atlempts to throw

some light on the subject and looks at a dark, murderous chapter in our conllict.

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