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The pistol was also used in a loyalist attack on a house in Loughgall in March 1973. According to an [[RUC]] intelligence report cited in ''Lethal Allies'', it was passed from the [[UDA]] to the UVF]] in a weapons exchange.<ref name="LethalAllies32">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.32.</ref> | The pistol was also used in a loyalist attack on a house in Loughgall in March 1973. According to an [[RUC]] intelligence report cited in ''Lethal Allies'', it was passed from the [[UDA]] to the UVF]] in a weapons exchange.<ref name="LethalAllies32">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.32.</ref> | ||
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| + | The pistol was among weapons taken by [[UDR]] member [[David George Teggart]] to a farm belonging to [[Norman Greenlee]] where they were found in August 1979.<ref name="LethalAllies32">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.32.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 04:13, 23 November 2013
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.'.[1]
The weapon was later used in a number of shootings including those of Patrick Turley, Dorothy Trainor and John Francis Green.[1]
The pistol was also used in a loyalist attack on a house in Loughgall in March 1973. According to an RUC intelligence report cited in Lethal Allies, it was passed from the UDA to the UVF]] in a weapons exchange.[2]
The pistol was among weapons taken by UDR member David George Teggart to a farm belonging to Norman Greenlee where they were found in August 1979.[2]
