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Special Report Northern Ireland Gun Running, Police Errors and the Trail to the Loughinisland Murders 12 * The Guardian | Tuesday 16 October 2012 The Guardian | Tuesday 16 October 2012 * 13 Special report Northern Ireland Gun running, police errors and the trail to the Loughinisland murders ments were made to pack the weapons much did they know in advance? Why In 1994 six Catholics were gunned down into a shipping container labelled as didn’t they move more quickly? Maybe in a village bar – but no one was charged. a consignment of ceramic floor tiles. they were perfectly happy to have that Bills of lading and a certificate of origin material … sort of ‘arrive’, and put into Ian Cobain follows the supply of arms were organised, and the weapons were the hands of the loyalists.” shipped to Belfast docks via Liverpool. Noel Little also suspects the British used in the massacre, and investigates “There were at least a couple of hun- turned a blind eye to the 1987 arms ship- dred Czech-made AKs – the VZ-58,” the ment. “It is a theory I can’t discount,” the allegations of collusion by the state Armscor source recalls. “And 90-plus he says. “Brian Nelson was inserted Browning-type handguns: Hungarian- into the UDA as an agent, he wasn’t a made P9Ms. About 30,000 rounds recruited member. Ho w could he know Shortly after 10pm on 18 June 1994, that, all released without charge. The of 7.62 x 39mm ammunition, not the about it and not tell his handler?” Ireland were 1-0 up against Italy in the police repeatedly assured the families 51mm Nato rounds. Plus a dozen or so Little believes that his attempt to opening match of the 1994 World Cup. that no stone would be left unturned. RPGs, and a few hundred fragmentation hand over stolen missile technology to The second half had just kicked off, and Emma Rogan was eight years old grenades.” Armscor in Paris – straying into “secrets inside the Heights Bar at Loughinisland, when her father, Adrian, was killed at Sources within both the police and and commerce”, as he puts it – would 21 miles south of Belfast, all eyes were the Heights. “I was told that these bad the UVF have confirmed that one of the have been a step too far for the British on the television. The bar is tiny: there men came into the bar, and that my VZ-58s was used at Loughinisland. authorities, obliging them to tip off the were 15 men inside, and it was packed. daddy was dead. I didn’t really know According to the Armscor source, the French. Aidan O’Toole, the owner’s 23-year- what they meant.” UR member who dealt with Bernhardt After eight months on remand, the old son, was serving. “I heard the As she grew up, she had no reason to was Noel Little, a civil servant and four men were brought to court charged door open and then I just heard crack, doubt the police when they said they former British soldier. Now in his mid- with arms trafficking, handling stolen crack, crack and felt a stabbing pain were doing everything in their power 60s and living quietly in a Belfast sub- goods and terrorism-related conspiracy. inside me,” he recalls. “I just ran. It was to catch the killers. “We didn’t question urb, Little denies this. “My position is Bernhardt told the court that he had instinctive. I didn’t know what was hap- the police: that’s what this area is like. that I wasn’t involved,” Little says. But helped arrange the Lebanese arms deal pening but I knew I had to get away.” If they said they would leave no stone he adds: “I would deny it even if I was.” for loyalist paramilitaries in 1987. The Others inside the bar turned when unturned, you took that at face value.” Little confirms, however, that he was four were sentenced to time served the door opened and saw two men in By the time the 10th anniversary of a founder member of UR, and a central and fined between 20,000 and 100,000 boiler suits, their faces hidden by bala- the killings came around, Rogan was figure within the organisation at the francs (£2,000-£10,000 then). clavas. One of the intruders dropped to anxious to learn more about her father’s time that the weapons arrived in Bel- Brian Nelson was finally arrested in one knee and fired three bursts from an death, and hear of any progress the fast. He also appears to possess detailed January 1990 after John Stevens, then automatic rifle. Barney Green was sitting police had made. A series of meetings knowledge of the way in which the arms deputy chief constable of Cambridge- with his back to the door, close enough was organised between senior investiga- were smuggled and distributed. shire, had been brought in to investigate for the gunmen to reach out and tap tors of the Royal Ulster Constabulary The weapons arrived in Belfast in collusion between the security forces his shoulder had they wished. He took and the victims’ relatives, and later December 1987, a few days before and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern the first blast, with around nine rounds more information emerged when the McMichael was killed by an IRA car Ireland. At court, a plea deal resulted passing through him before striking police ombudsman for Northern Ireland bomb. Early in the new year, they in Nelson being jailed for 10 years after other men. Green, a retired farmer, was published a report in 2011 on the investi- were split three ways at a farmhouse he admitted 20 offences, including con- 87. gation. Relatives of the dead men came in County Armagh. The UDA lost its spiracy to murder. Green’s nephew, Dan McCreanor, 59, to the conclusion, as Rogan puts it, that entire slice of the pie within minutes: its Stevens’ investigation team was well another farmer, died alongside him. A “they had treated us like mushrooms, share of about 100 weapons was loaded aware of concerns surrounding the second burst killed Malcolm Jenkin- keeping us in the dark for years and into the boot of two hire cars that were importation of the weapons. Members son, 53, who was at the bar, and Adrian feeding us whatnot”. stopped a few minutes later at a police of the team talked to former Armscor Rogan, 34, who was trying to escape The getaway car had passed through roadblock near Portadown. The three officials in South Africa, but concluded to the lavatory. A third burst aimed at four owners in the eight weeks before occupants were later jailed, with their that an investigation into the matter was a table to the right of the door missed it was used in the shooting, changing leader, Davy Payne, receiving a 19-year so unlikely to produce any results as to Willie O’Hare but killed his son-in-law, hands so quickly that the first person The victims sentence. be fruitless. However, a senior member Eamon Byrne, 39. O’Hare’s son Patsy, 35, in the chain remained the registered The six who died in the attack, from The following month, police recov- of the inquiry team says he believes it was also shot and died en route to hos- owner. The morning after the killings, a top: Eamon Byrne, Barney Green, ered around half the UVF’s weapons feasible that the UK authorities could pital. Five men were injured: one, who Belfast police officer was asked to call at Malcom Jenkinson, Patsy O’Hare, Dan after a tip-off led them to an outhouse have been involved in bringing the lost part of a foot, would spend nine this person’s home. The officer did so, McCreanor and Adrian Rogan on the outskirts of north Belfast. Little weapons into Belfast – or at least turned months in hospital. but found the man was out. The officer was also arrested, after his telephone a blind eye. “It’s not at all far-fetched,” Loughinisland had been scarcely then recorded the time of his visit as number was found written on the back he says. touched by the Troubles. A village of 9.30am - 34 minutes before the farmer of Payne’s hand. “John McMichael had By the time of the Loughinisland 600 or so people, where Catholics and had rung police to tell them he had dis- given it to him, in case he got into any massacre, loyalist gunmen with access Protestants had lived side by side for covered the car. trouble in Armagh,” Little says. Eventu- to the Armscor arsenal were killing at generations, none of its sons or daugh- Some time between 11am and noon, ally, he was released without charge. least as many people as the IRA. Czech- ters had been killed or hurt before, a second police officer – a detective with Little says that while UR redistributed made VZ-58 assault rifles were used in and none had been accused of terrorist no connection to the murder inquiry a few of its weapons – “there were some many of the killings. A few weeks after offences. It is not a republican area – – telephoned the second person in the deals around the edges” – most of its the shootings at the Heights Bar, the IRA many of its Catholic inhabitants were so ownership chain, and asked him to consignment was kept intact. announced a ceasefire. uninterested in politics that they did not come to the local police station to give a “They were never used. They were Many in Northern Ireland are con- vote even for the nationalist Social Dem- statement.
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