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Date |
Name |
Age |
Sex |
Reli-gion |
Affili-ation |
Alleged Perpe-trator |
Location Town / Area |
Location County / Country |
Details |
Category |
Arrests / Prosecutions |
Sources |
| 27-Jan-94 | Cormac McDermott | 31 | M | C | UVF | Ballymena | Co. Antrim |
McDermott was shot at his home by the UVF [1] His wife was shot twice in the throat but survived. Their 3½ year old daughter witnessed the attack [2] He was the son-in-law of Larne Cllr. William Cunning who received a letter bomb in 1991 [3] A 31 year old man was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of McDermott an the attempted murder of Mrs McDermott, and possession of weapon [4] |
[1] CAIN, University of Ulster [2] Lost Lives, p 1344 [3] Relatives for justice. www.relativesforjustice.com |
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| 21-May-94 | Martin Doherty | 35 | M | IRA | UVF | Pearse St. Dublin | Republic of Ireland | Doherty was shot by the UVF, who were trying to plant a bomb in Widow Scallon's pub [1] Three men tried to enter the bar with a 15kg bomb [2] A sinn Fein event was being held inside at the time [3] Another man was wounded in the attack [4] His sister alleges an unmasked Garda car was seen leaving the area 20 minutes before the attack [5] No one was ever arrested for his murder. The inquest into his death took 10 years |
[1] IRA member shot while stopping bombs, Belfast Telegraph, 04 November 2004
[2] CAIN, University of Ulster
[3] IRA member shot while stopping bombers, Irish Independent, 04 November 2004 |
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31-Aug-94 |
Sean MacDermott |
37 |
M |
C |
Civilian |
UVF |
Antrim |
Co Antrim |
Mr MacDermott was abducted from the house where he was lodging in Antrim. A gang broke in the door with sledgehammers, dragged him from his bed, and bound him with tape before taking him away. He was later found dead in a car, shot twice in the head with a shotgun.[1] |
[1] Lost Lives, by David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, and Chris Thornton, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999, no. 3517 |
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01-Sep-94 |
John O’Hanlon |
32 |
M |
C |
Civilian |
UFF |
North Belfast |
Co Antrim |
Shot from passing vehicle while working on a friend’s car on Skegoneill Road in North Belfast. The UFF claimed Mr O’Hanlon was a ‘known Republican’. At the inquest, however, the Coroner disputed this claim, saying there was “no basis of fact in it at all.” At the same time, he said that the only possible conclusion was that it was a sectarian murder. The gun used by the killer had been linked to other attacks in North Belfast between March and September 1994.[1] |
[1] UFF blasted for ‘sectarian killing’ of last victim, Irish News, 22 June 1995 |
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10-Nov-94 |
Frank Kerr |
54 |
M |
C |
Civilian |
IRA |
Newry |
Co Down |
Postal worker killed during a bungled £130,000 robbery of the Newry sorting office. Mr Kerr struggled with one of the robbers, who had tied up several workers inside the sorting office, and was shot in the head. The IRA admitted the robbery and killing but denied it was a breach of the ceasefire, claiming a breakdown in their chain of command.[1] |
Two men, Declan McComish (28) and Kevin Patrick Donegan (39) were arrested with Mr Kerr’s bloodstained uniform in their possession. In December 1996, they were found not guilty of murder, but were convicted of assisting the IRA killers.[2] Mr Donegan was sentenced to eight years and six and a half years and Mr McComish was sentenced to five and a half years and four years, to run concurrently, for assisting the killing and for their part in the robbery respectively[3]. Mr Donegan was released in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement[4]. |
[1] Lost Lives, no. 3519[2] Two cleared of killing PO man, by Brenda O’Neill, Irish News, 5 December 1996[3] Pair jailed for helping PO man’s IRA killers, by Brenda O’Neill, Irish News, 14 December 1996[4] IRA hunger striker freed in peace deal, by John Mullin, Guardian, 22 October 1998 |
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12-Dec-94 |
Malachy Martin Clark |
17 |
M |
C |
Civilian |
Self inflicted |
West Belfast |
Co Antrim |
Hanged himself after a so-called punishment beating by a group of IRA men (on 21 October 1994) for glue-sniffing that left him in the hospital with a broken nose and ruptured eardrum[1]. Left a note saying that the beating drove him to suicide[2]. |
[1] Lost Lives, no. 3520[2] Ulster beatings: No truce in sight; IRA, Loyalists using violence to keep control, by Ray Moseley, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 1995 |
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22-Dec-94 |
Noel Lyness |
47 |
M |
C |
Civilian |
Loyalists? |
South Belfast |
Co Antrim |
Assaulted, assumedly with a breeze block found at the scene. The killing is believed to have been sectarian.[1] The murder was not believed to have been sanctioned by the UVF, UDA or Red Hand Commando, but was believed to have been committed by a non-specific loyalist group[2]. |
[1] Lost Lives, no. 3521[2] Hatred awaits decommissioning as ceasefires hold, by Gerry Moriarty, Irish Times, 29 December 1994[3] http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1994/html |
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