SAOIRSE32

7/8/2008

Two face charges over feud murder

BBC
6 August 2008

Two men are to appear court on Thursday charged with the murder of the UDA member Tommy English.


Tommy English was murdered during a loyalist feud in 2000

The 40-year-old was shot in front of his wife at his home in Ballyfore Gardens, on the Ballyduff Estate in Newtownabbey, in October 2000.

His death came during a feud with the rival Ulster Volunteer Force, in which seven people died.

It is the first case to be brought to court by the Historical Enquiries Team, set up to investigate unsolved murders.

Mr English was a former member of an Ulster Democratic Party talks delegation in the early stages of the Northern Ireland peace talks.

The party, which folded in 2001, was linked to the loyalist paramilitary grouping UDA/UFF.

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