Star Pistol 334164
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]
