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Date Posted: 18:11:27 08/13/02 Tue
In reply to: CR Vets 's message, "LVF Prison Death" on 18:07:25 08/13/02 Tue

>IRISH NEWS � Tuesday, June 11 � Front page � by Chief
>Reporter � Sharon O�Neill
>
>Fulton linked to 12 sectarian killings
>
>LEADING loyalist Mark �Swinger� Fulton, found dead in
>his prison cell yesterday has been linked to up to a
>dozen sectarian murders.
>
>The body of the LVF chief was discovered in his cell
>at Maghaberry Prison, Co. Antrim yesterday morning.
>
>The 42-year-old father-of-two was found lying in bed
>with a belt around his neck.
>
>Last night security minister Jane Kennedy said, �I
>wish to pass on my sympathy to the Fulton family. The
>death of any prisoner is a cause of concern.�
>
>Two high-level investigations have been launched into
>Fulton�s death, which the police at this stage are
>treating as suspicious.
>
>But a spokesman for the Prison Service said: �I have
>no reason to believe there was foul play.�
>
>Fulton had been housed in a segregated wing of the
>jail.
>
>A loyalist source said last night, �He had difficulty
>doing time, but he was also very fearful that
>republicans would do to him what they did to Bill
>Wright.�
>
>A senior security source said last night: �The LVF is
>still very strong, particularly in Lurgan, but it will
>be more or less accepted that he committed suicide.�
>
>Fulton was a close associate of LVF founder Bill
>Wright who was killed by the INLA in the Maze Prison
>in 1997.
>
>The top-loyalist was arrested last year by the team of
>detectives investigating the 1999 murder of solicitor
>Rosemary Nelson and last night claims resurfaced that
>he was involved in the murder � despite being in
>prison at the time.
>
>Last year Fulton denied any involvement in the LVF
>murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O�Hagan.
>
>But the Irish News has established that Fulton was
>implicated in several of the most horrific sectarian
>murders in N. Ireland.
>
>These include:
>
>Bellaghy GAA club chairman S�an Brown (61) in 1997.
>The body of the father-of-six was dumped in his car
>near Randalstown.
>
>Lorry driver Gerard Cairns (22) and his brother Rory
>(18) gunned down in 1993 as they watched television in
>their Bleary home.
>
>Terence McConville (43), murdered at his Portadown
>home in 1992.
>
>Dessie Rodgers and Fergus Magee, shot dead in 1991 as
>they left work at the Hyster forklift factory near
>Lurgan. Protestant colleague John Laverty was also
>killed as he fled the gunmen.
>
>Denis Carville (19), murdered 1990 as he sat with his
>girlfriend in a car at Oxford Island nature reserve.
>The gunmen quizzed him as to his religion before he
>was shot at point blank range. Bill Wright was also
>implicated in the murder
>
>Patrick Boyle (60), a father-of-five from Annaghmore,
>killed in his home. Mr. Boyle�s two sons were wounded
>in the attack. The killers cut the telephone line.
>
>Taken from �Stormont-Watch� � www.voy.com/70381/
>Distributed via the Irish Anti-Partition League �
>iapl_newsroom32@hotmail.com

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