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9 July 1996 - Michael McGoldrick (31), a Catholic civilian, found in his cab in a remote lane at Aghagallon, near Lurgan, a day after having picked up a fare in the town. He had been shot five times in the head. Both the UVF and the UDA released statements emphatically denying involvement in McGoldrick's killing.
Up until his death in 1975, Hanna was the leader of the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the UVF, having established the brigade and set up the first unit in his home town of Lurgan in 1972. [12] Hanna appointed himself brigade commander and his leadership was endorsed by the UVF's supreme commander Gusty Spence. [12]
In 2010, after Hughes's death, some of his statements were published in the book Voices from the Grave. [21] [42] He claimed McConville had admitted being an informer, and that Adams ordered her disappearance. [21] [43] In a 2010 newspaper interview, Price also claimed Adams ordered her to participate in McConville's kidnapping. [44]
[10] [12] Some time later, he went to live in the Mourneview Estate in Lurgan, [10] County Armagh before making his permanent home in the village of Donaghcloney, County Down, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Lurgan. In the late 1960s he married Eileen Maxwell, by whom he had a son and two daughters.
A month later, members of the Mid-Ulster Brigade beat and stabbed Protestant teenagers, Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine to death on a country road outside Tandragee, County Armagh after one of them had made disparaging comments about Jameson's killing earlier on at a drinking party. Neither of the boys was a member of the LVF or any other ...
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Billy Hanna (c. 1929 – 27 July 1975, Lurgan, County Armagh) — Korean War veteran, founder of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, and its commander until July 1975; he had also served as a sergeant in the C Company, 11th Battalion UDR before being dismissed for leaking classified information to the UVF. [28] He was the gang's staff instructor.