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Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager. In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the "Orange Citadel", [15] Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster ...
Moon turned state's evidence and as a result he, Solo and B-Fool were sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. The film ends with a shot of the funeral program of the real-life Poo Bear. The director dedicates the film to Jake "Big Jake" Robles, a Campanella Park Piru and G-Twin, a member of the Athens Park Bloods who both participated ...
Mark Fulton (c. 1961 – 10 June 2002) was a Northern Irish loyalist.He was the leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), having taken over its command following the assassination of Billy Wright in the Maze Prison in 1997 by members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
Killed were David Eaton, 66, and Cynthia Eaton, 62, who had picked her son up from prison on April 14; and longtime friends Robert Eger, 72, and Patti Eger, 62.
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Outside the prison he was greeted by up to 300 of his supporters. [46] Once free, he was a key part of an effort to forge stronger ties between the UDA and the LVF, a small breakaway faction of the UVF founded in 1996 by Billy Wright and following his killing, commanded by Mark "Swinger" Fulton, with whom Adair was on good terms. Fulton had ...
The light prison sentence issued Friday to a white former Minnesota police officer, Kim Potter, for killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, surprised some legal experts.
A doorman, Catholic civilian Terry Enright (28), was killed. He was a cross-community worker who helped steer young people away from violence. The LVF said it was revenge for the killing of Billy Wright. [43] [44] 18 January: the LVF killed Catholic civilian Fergal McCusker (28) in Maghera, County Londonderry. He was kidnapped and shot dead ...