State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1975
Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1975.
January
- 10 - IRA member John Francis Green shot dead at a house near Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan. In 1999, former RUC officer John Weir convicted of killing William Strathearn claimed Robin Jackson, Robert McConnell and Harris Boyle were involved in the Green killing. In 1981, Fred Holroyd claimed that Robert Nairac had given given him graphic details of the killing shortly afterwards.[1] The Pat Finucane Centre has linked the attack to the Glennane Gang.[2]
July
- 31 - Miami Showband Massacre - Members of the Miami Showband are stopped at a fake military checkpoint by a UVF gang. Harris Boyle and Wesley Sommerville, members of the UDR as well as the UVF are killed when a bomb they attempt to load on the band's van explodes prematurely. The gang then opens fire on the band killing Tony Geraghty, Brian McCoy and Fran O'Toole.[3][4] The Pat Finucane Centre has linked the attack to the Glennane Gang.[5] A 2011 report by the Historical Enquiries Team linked a weapon used in the killing to Robin Jackson.[3]
Notes
- ↑ David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, p.511.
- ↑ Collusion in the south Armagh - mid Ulster area in the mid-1970's, Pat Finucane Centre, accessed 19 June 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Miami Showband massacre: HET raises collusion concerns, BBC News, 14 December 2011.
- ↑ Miami Showband, Pat Finucane Centre, accessed 19 June 2012.
- ↑ Collusion in the south Armagh - mid Ulster area in the mid-1970's, Pat Finucane Centre, accessed 19 June 2012.
