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Portadown is located in an area known during the troubles as the "murder triangle" [1] because of the high number of killings carried out by paramilitary organisations. The town is the site of an annual parade in July by an ex-serviceman's lodge of the Orange Order, from St Mark's Church in the town centre, where participants lay wreaths at the war memorial.
On 12 May 1997, five Portadown men (Allister Hanvey, Wayne David Lunt, Paul Rodney Marc Hobson, Dean Forbes, Stacey Bridgett) were charged with the murder of Robert Hamill at a special court in Lurgan RUC station and remanded in custody. A sixth man, Rory Randolph Arthur Robinson, was also later charged with murder. [29]
The vast majority of the attacks claimed by the PAF occurred in a region between Belfast and Newtownabbey in Armagh and Tyrone known locally as the "murder triangle". [4] On 24 November 1974, shortly after the first attack claimed by the PAF, an interview with three unidentified men was published in the Sunday World.
3 April 1975: killing of Catholic civilian Martin McVeigh. He was shot dead near his home at Ballyoran Park, off the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, as he cycled home from work. [91] Robin Jackson was later arrested in possession of the murder weapon, but the RUC did not question or charge him with the murder. [82]
The brigade has been active since 1972. The Portadown unit along with the brigade's leader Billy Wright was officially stood down on 2 August 1996 by the UVF's Brigade Staff (its Belfast leadership) following the brigade's killing of a Catholic taxi driver during a UVF ceasefire. The brigade, however, continued to function in the mid-Ulster area.
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Lurgan and the associated towns of Portadown and Craigavon made up part of what was known as the "murder triangle"; an area known for a significant number of incidents and fatalities during The Troubles. [14] By 2010 the town was one of the few areas in Northern Ireland where so-called dissident republicans have a significant level of support. [15]