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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 on both sides. The town is the site of an annual parade in July by an ex-servicemen's lodge of the Protestant Orange Order , from St Mark's Church in the town centre, where ...
Tandragee, County Armagh, where Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine had gone on Friday night 18 February 2000. At 1:30 a.m. on Saturday 19 February 2000, Protestant acquaintances, Andrew Robb, a 19-year-old unmarried father, and David McIlwaine (known to his friends as "Mackers"), an 18-year-old graphic design student at Lurgan Tech, both of Portadown, had left "The Spot" nightclub in Tandragee ...
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]
Margaret Perry was a 26-year-old woman from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland who was abducted on 21 June 1991. [1] After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on 30 June 1992. [2] She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved. [3]
Howell, a native of Portadown and a dentist by occupation, was a deeply religious father of nine and a former lay preacher. [10] He married Lesley in July 1983 and together they had four children. They were members of the local Baptist church. After his wife's murder, Howell married Kyle Jorgensen, a native of New York, with whom he had five ...
A Wisconsin woman accused of poisoning her friend with eye drops became emotional when the defence showed the court photos of the two of them together and said the victim thought of her as a daughter.
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]
16 March: the INLA shot and injured a prominent member of the Orange Order and brother of the former commander of the UDA Mid-Ulster Brigade in Portadown, County Armagh. [55] [56] 25 March: a gun and grenade attack was carried out on the Loyalist Queen's Bar in Thomas Street, Portadown, County Armagh, in retaliation for the murder of Thomas ...