Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“On the 40th anniversary of Edgar Graham’s murder my foremost thoughts are with his beloved sister, Anne, who even this week has had to suffer the vile abuse of relentless and heartless republican trolls.
“I had the privilege to know Edgar quite well from our university days. His brutal murder 40 years ago ranks among the most calculated and cruel of the IRA. I’m in little doubt that his prestigious talent as an up and coming Unionist leader made him a target for IRA terrorists who could not compete with his intellectual articulation of the unionist and anti-terrorist case.
“Whatever our differing party allegiances, Edgar was indisputably a unionist of great principle and ability whose talents would have been well used if evil men, who the aspiring First Minister continues to excuse, had allowed him to live.
“The murder of Edgar Graham is an abiding reminder of the anti-democratic ethos of the murdering IRA, which still imbues those who justify and celebrate their actions.”