UVF Gunmen jailed
Ederown
11-year-old girl was shot in the back.
Charlene Daly, now aged 13, still has a bullet lodged in her back from the
machine gun attack two years ago.
John Thomas Hazlett (31) from Alexander Road, Limavady and Darren John
Clarke (21) from Loughanhill Park, Coleraine, were convicted of possession
of a 9ml submachine gun and 30 bullets with intent to endanger life, but
were acquitted of trying to murder Charlene.
Sentencing Hazlett to a seven-year jail term, Lord Justice Nicholson told
him that he believed he had "chosen the target" in retaliation for a
shooting the previous evening.
Clarke was sent to jail for five years for driving Hazlett to the house in
Jefferson Park in Coleraine.
Lord Justice Nicholson revealed to Belfast Crown Court that Clarke had
driven Hazlett on a "dummy run" just half an hour before the attack during a
provincewide feud between rival loyalist factions, the UVF and UDA.
He told the pair that he had no other option but to hand down "deterrent
sentences" because he saw it as the only way that "paramilitaries will learn
that anarchy of this nature will not be tolerated".
During their trial last May, the court heard that 30 bullets were fired from
a sub-machine gun into the home of Mr Frank Daly, 20 into the living room
and 10 into an upstairs bedroom.
As his daughter Charlene tried to run across the living room, Mr Daly had to
grab her and throw himself over her as a hail of bullets cut the blinds "in
half".
A bullet remains in her back to this day as doctors fear it would not be
safe to remove it.
Her father Frank gave evidence to the court that he had played a "minor
role" in the now defunct Ulster Democratic Party, linked to the UDA
Telmey®
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Laughable ain't it? ...
Telmey.
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Not their fault, and it's no reflection on their intelligence,
it's simply because of the bullshite they are being fed"
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Ederown
"TelmeyŽ" <tel...@ntlworld.moc> wrote in message
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They were given such light sentences one because they shot another
Protestant and that's okay in the eyes of the PSNI and NIO, and secondly
their political wing the PUP is needed at Stormount to keep the UUP in
power, lest the Good Friday Agreement loses a majority of support amongst
Unionists and de facto it crunches to a stop.
Henry Joy.
Telmey®
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Yes Henry, that is why it is laughable, If i went out and shot someone
I'd be locked up for 20 years, yet these 'professional' gunmen can do
it and get out in 2 years , Christ If someone has a car accident
and accidently hurts/maims someone then they will get a longer
sentence than that. You can get longer for kicking a Dog, not that a
Dogs life is any less / more sacred.
What I'd like to see is a law that deals correctly with deliberate or
wanton acts differently to 'accidents' and much stiffer sentence
given to those that premeditate their actions. which is the way the
law was supposed to be in the first place. not the reverse!