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| − | [[Star Pistol | + | [[Star Pistol 334164]] was 9mm weapon issued to [[Robert Winters]], private in the [[Ulster Defence Regiment]], and a founder member of the modern [[Ulster Volunteer Force]].<ref name="LethalAllies31">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.</ref> |
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.'.<ref name="LethalAllies31">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.</ref> | 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.'.<ref name="LethalAllies31">Anne Cadwallader, ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland'', Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 04:14, 23 November 2013
Star Pistol 334164 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]
