Star Pistol 334164

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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]


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Anne Cadwallader, Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland, Mercier Press, 2013, p.31.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Anne Cadwallader, Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland, Mercier Press, 2013, p.32.