Star Pistol 334164

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Star Pistol 334163 was 9mm weapon issued to Robert Winters, private in the Ulster Defence Regiment, and a founder member of the modern Ulster Volunteer Force.[1]

Anne Cadwallader writes in Lethal Allies, 'Winters was robbed by three men in Portadown late at night in March 1973. He says he was 'struck on the head with a blunt instrument', requiring admission to hospital.'.[2]

The weapon was later used in a number of shootings including those of Patrick Turley, Dorothy Trainor and John Francis Green.[3]

Notes

  1. Anne Cadwallader, Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland, Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.
  2. Anne Cadwallader, Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland, Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.
  3. Anne Cadwallader, Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland, Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.