Charges over feud death
Irish News
12/12/08
TWO brothers were sent for trial yesterday on charges of murdering an alleged UDA leader during a bloody loyalist paramilitary feud eight years ago. Social worker David Stewart (38) and Robert Stewart (34) are accused of shooting Tommy English in front of his wife. The pair, both from Newtownabbey on the outskirts of Belfast, also face charges of being members of the outlawed UVF for more than a decade. Relatives of the murder victim were in Belfast Magistrates Court yesterday as prosecutors were granted an application to have them returned to the Crown Court at a later date. Both David Stewart, of Ballyearl Crescent, and his brother Robert, from Carntall Rise, were remanded in custody until their trial. Their case was the first to be brought to court by the Historical Enquiries Team, a specialist unit set up to investigate unsolved murders from the Troubles. English (40) was gunned down at his home on the Ballyduff Estate, on Halloween night in 2000.
'So venceremos, beidh bua againn eigin lá eigin. Sealadaigh abú.'
--Bobby Sands