They are: ◼️'Person U' identified this week as the lead gunman in the recently
published Police Ombudsman’s Report into the murders at Sean Graham's Bookies Shop in 1992, when five people massacred;
◼️Michael Stone, jailed for the infamous gun and bomb attack during an IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery in 1988 when three people were murdered;
◼️And Gorman McMullan, who was named in the film 'No Stone Unturned' as a suspect in the Louginisland Massacre, when six innocent Catholic men were murdered as they watched the World Cup finals on TV in 1994. As they entered the bar that night with murder on their minds the gunmen shouted the infamous three words "Trick or Treat" before spraying the bar with machine-gun fire. All three later joined the ruthless Red Hand Commando loyalist terror group. But their initial arms training supplied courtesy of the British Army Cadet Corps.
'Person U', Stone and McMullan were teenagers when they joined up and learned how to handle deadly rifles and machine-guns.
But on Saturday 12th Feb, Louginisland massacre suspect McMullan (68), was tight-lipped when quizzed about his days as a boy soldier in the army Cadet Corps. McMullan told this reporter: "Listen Jordan, away and f***k yourself!" Originally from Clarawood off the Knock dual carriageway, McMullan and 'Person U' were childhood friends with Michael Stone, who lived in the nearby Braniel estate. In a small army drill hall at the end of Slate Lane, Orangefield the future loyalist terrorists learned how to drill and handle guns. But it was on trips to Ballykinlar Army Camp in Co Down and another on the Isle of Man that they really developed the deadly skills which prepared them for their future roles as loyalist gunmen. At the outbreak of the Troubles, 'Person U', Stone and McMullan all quit the Cadet Corps to join the Red Hand Commando, based in the Braniel estate. As the Troubles developed,
'Person U' - the future bookies mass murderer - was arrested over the intimidation of seven Catholic families living in Braniel. But he escaped prosecution and walked free from the police station as a mystified Catholic man who had reported him looked on. A former Catholic resident now believe this may have been the moment 'Person U' was signed up as a police informant. "My father identified 'Person U' as the thug who forced our family out. He made a statement to the police and 'Person U' was arrested, but he was released almost immediately," one man told us. He later quit the RHC to join the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), the military section of the UDA (Ulster Defence Association). And it was as a member of the UFF that his murder career began.
Gorman McMullan was one of six loyalists convicted of the sectarian bombing of the Catholic-owned Hillfoot Bar (follow the link below to see the story) on the edge of the Braniel estate in September 1972. He was jailed for eight years. Earlier last week, Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson roundly condemned what she called the 'collusive behaviour' of RUC officers investigating a string of UFF murders in South Belfast. Twenty-seven Catholics lost their lives in the UFF attacks - and dozens more were injured - when murder gangs from the Ulster Freedom Fighters sprung a series of terror attacks in south Belfast.
SLAUGHTER
Despite being jailed for his part in an unrelated loyalist murder bid, 'Person U' has never spent a single day behind bars in connection with the bookies shop slaughter.
Former leading loyalist paramilitaries last week told the Sunday World how they are now convinced 'Person U' was working for a state security agency when he pulled the trigger in Sean Graham's bookies massacre. "We didn't know at the time - because we were too close to it all - but it's so obvious now, 'Person U' was working as a state informant. 'Person U' is also believed to have been the loyalist gunman in the savage assassination (execution) of Catholic taxi driver Harry Conlon. Mr Conlon, a 54-year-old father of four, was shot dead (execution style) four months before the Sean Graham attack. Person U' is believed to be alive and well and living in mainland Europe. After two lengthy stints in prison, loyalist mass murderer Michael Stone (pictured above) now lives in Co Down *orthern Ireland.
With many thanks to: Hugh Jordan for the EXCLUSIVE Sunday World story original story.
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