Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “I was pleased today to have a further meeting with the late Glenn Quinn’s mother and brother, following the publication of the recent Police Ombudsman’s report. “Given the stark findings of the Ombudsman, I am appalled that the PSNI rejected the recommendation for disciplinary action against an inspector so […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “Following the very clear High Court judgement today in Gerard Kelly-v-Malachi O’Doherty, in which Kelly’s libel action was struck out, I am calling on the Director General of the National Crime Agency to initiate recovery proceedings against Kelly arising from income generated by his memoir publications, “The Escape” and “Playing […]
Speaking ahead of an event to mark the forty eighth anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre TUV Cusher councillor Keith Ratcliffe said: “Even by the brutal standards of the blood soaked IRA Kingsmills stands out as a particularly savage and callous act. Here were men returning from their place of work taken out and shot because […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Years after a pension for innocent victims of violence was agreed, there are countless cases still caught up in bureaucracy. Even obviously deserving cases have moved at a snail’s pace. It is shameful that the victims’ commissioner has used his final major contribution not to highlight the ridiculous delays […]
Jim Allister said: “Whereas the Legacy Act is wrong, primarily in affording amnesty, the international legal action by the Republic is shameless hostile meddling in U.K. legislation from a state which sustained and gave sanctuary to IRA terrorists over decades and which continues to operate effective amnesty for murderers. “The most important provision in the […]
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 […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Once again the Independent Reporting Commission, a group which supposedly has a mandate to “to provide a comprehensive analysis of overall efforts to tackle paramilitarism in Northern Ireland” has produced a report which manages not to mention a single paramilitary group by name. “It is worth winding the clock […]
TUV leader Jim Allister and deputy leader Court councillor Ron McDowell attended the unveiling a memorial and a service to mark 30 years since the IRA bombing of a Shankill fish shop resulted in the murder of nine innocent Protestants. Speaking after the event Mr McDowell said: “30 years ago today the community on the […]
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “The weekend outpourings of support for and celebrating of the massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians in Israel by Hamas by their fellow travellers in Sinn Fein should be a wake up call for all those, including government and even the UUP, falling over themselves to demand a return […]
TUV Leader Jim Allister has described the 4 year prison sentence (plus 2 years on licence) imposed on Gavin Coyle as pitifully low and no deterrent to those involved in terrorism. “To see an avowed terrorist, who admitted IRA membership and who has previous terrorist convictions, sentenced to a mere 4 years for this murderous […]