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To: Grainne who wrote (107203)	8/7/2005 10:15:10 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 108807

The UVF might have had a purpose at one time. The same can't be said about the LVF. What can you expect from a group whose founder was named King Rat? They are both nothing but street gangs now. Paramilitaries - Loyalist Volunteer Force The Loyalist Volunteer Force was formed sometime in 1996 when the UVF expelled Billy Wright, its renegade mid-Ulster brigade commander. Nicknamed King Rat, Wright's mid-Ulster brigade had terrorised Catholics in the Portadown area for years. The UVF moved against him on the grounds that he authorised the murder of Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick at the height of the 1996 Orange Order stand-off at Drumcree in Portadown. When the Unit declined to disband, the UVF issued a death threat which Wright ignored. Shortly afterwards he formed the LVF which was proscribed by Secretary of State Mo Mowlam in June 1997. In July 1997 the LVF was linked to the murder of an 18-year-old Catholic woman as she slept with her Protestant boyfriend at his home in Aghalee near Portadown. It also admitted planting a bomb in Dundalk and firebombs in two Northern Ireland Tourist Board offices in Banbridge and Newcastle. Then just after Christmas 1997 an INLA prisoner shot Billy Wright dead at the Maze Prison where he was serving an eight-year sentence for threatening to kill a woman. After the Wright murder the LVF established close links with the UFF to the point where the UFF used the LVF title and code word to try to hide its involvement in the sectarian murder of Eddie Treanor in December 1997. A few days after the killing the Chief Constable publicly linked the UDA/UFF to that and other killings and the Ulster Democratic Party was suspended from the political talks as a consequence. In March 1998, LVF gunmen shot dead Protestant Philip Allen and his Catholic friend Damien Trainor at a bar in Poyntzpass. Shortly after the killing the LVF issued a ten-page policy document threatening politicians, Church and industry leaders and paramilitaries who it claimed were colluding in a "peace surrender process designed to break the Union and establish the dynamic for Irish unity, within an all-Ireland Roman Catholic, Gaelic Celtic state." In a Sunday Times interview an LVF representative said his organisation supported the political analysis of Rev Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. When the Provisional IRA called its second cease-fire in July 1997, the LVF stated that they would not be reciprocating because an LVF cease-fire would not be in the interests of the Protestant people of Northern Ireland. Yet in May 1998 it called a cease-fire and urged people to vote No in the referendum. The NIO accepted its cease-fire in November making its prisoners eligible for the early release scheme under the Belfast Agreement. Later it handed over a small amount of weapons to the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. In January 2000 the tensions between the LVF and the UVF led to a bloody feud when the UVF leader Richard Jameson was shot dead in Portadown. The UVF blamed the LVF for his death. The following month the LVF blamed the UVF for the brutal stabbing of two teenagers in Tandragee, Co Armagh. The LVF were also said to be involved in the feud on the Shankill between the UVF and the UDA later in the year. The conflict between the UVF and the LVF in the Portadown area is still unresolved. Despite its "ceasefire" the LVF continued its sectarian murder campaign under the guise of the Red Hand Defenders, a badge of convenience used also by the UDA. When the LVF was linked to the murder of journalist Martin O' Hagan at the end of September 2001, the Secretary of State was moved to declare on 12th October that the government no longer recognised their ceasefire. bbc.co.uk

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