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"Barbaric and abhorrent" Sandy Row Shooting
A man was shot dead on Sandy Row in south Belfast today. Michael Green, from Ballysillan, was shot as he got off his motorbike outside his work at 8:15 am.
The LVF denied the victim was a member of their group but Ulster Unionist MLA Michael McGimpsey said the killing appeared to be linked to the ongoing LVF/UVF feud. He was one of a number of local representatives to condemn the murder, and went on to describe the killing as "barbaric and abhorrent."
"Everybody in the area is disgusted by this. It's disgraceful. It has had the trappings of loyalist feud and we have seen over the summer the police apparently being unwilling or unable to intervene in this feud and we have seen matters basically spiralling out of control."
Michael McGimpsey, Ulster Unionist MLA
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Mr McGimpsey's statement echoed the sentiment of the DUP's Jimmy Spratt ("This madness has to stop,") and SDLP MP for South Belfast, Alasdair McDonnell ("there can be no justification for this brutal and cowardly attack").
The whole 'fued' really is a joke. Terrorist mobs fighting over who pushes the drugs and runs the protection rackets. It's well past time the authorities did something about it, rather than leaving the scumbags to their own devices.
I've no problem with terrorists getting killed per se; in fact they probably deserve all that's coming to them but these events leave a terrible effect on innocent communities that can feel the grip of the terrorist gangs getting tightening with each attack.