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Loyalist sources later told the Sunday World newspaper the attack had been ordered and planned in Portadown by Mid-Ulster UVF commander Billy Wright (died 1997) and Mark Fulton (died 2002), and carried out by other members of their unit. [3]
Robert Hamill was a Northern Irish Catholic man who was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Hamill and his friends were attacked on 27 April 1997 on the town's main street. It has been claimed that the local Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), parked a short distance away, did nothing to stop the attack.
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The UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, based in the Craigavon area, stepped up its attacks in the early 1990s.At this time it was led by Billy Wright from Portadown.In March 1991, the UVF shot dead three Catholic civilians (two teenage girls and a man) at a mobile shop in Craigavon (see 1991 Drumbeg killings).
In July 1996, the Drumcree standoff increased tensions between the loyalist and nationalist populations of Northern Ireland, and particularly the Craigavon area. [5] The Troubles saw more than 3,600 people killed in a 30-year period, the majority of whom were civilians murdered by combatants. [ 6 ]
In at least 20 of the 24 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women. ... BBC News NI. December 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM. ... was found dead following a ...
The Sunday World's offices were also firebombed. The BBC's Mark Davenport stated that he spoke to a drug dealer who told him that he paid Wright protection money. [42] Loyalists in Portadown such as Bobby Jameson stated that the LVF was not a "loyalist organisation but a drugs organisation causing misery in Portadown". [43]