> > >UDA Killer To Join English Neo-Nazis >========================= >Special report: Northern Ireland > >Henry McDonald >Sunday September 3, 2000 >---------------------------- >A convicted sectarian killer recently released early from the Maze prison is >moving to England to join the neo-Nazi terror group, Combat 18. >Stephen Irwin was sentenced to life for his part in the 'trick or treat' >massacre at Greysteel in CoDerry seven years ago. >The 26-year-old UDA member, who was befriended by English neo-Nazis while he >was held in the Maze, will find himself in the middle of a violent dispute >among British fascists. >Anti-fascist campaigners in Britain claim Irwin sent out photographs of >himself in prison posing in a Glasgow Rangers shirt in front of Combat 18 >regalia. >UDA sources told The Observer that Irwin is moving to London where he plans >to link up with Mark Atkinson, a leading Combat 18 member who has >convictions for distributing fascist material. >Atkinson travelled regularly to Northern Ireland and visited Irwin in the >Maze. According to UDA sources, Irwin has fallen foul of fellow loyalists, >particularly those opposed to Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair. >Irwin was responsible, along with Jeffrey Deeney, for killing seven people, >six Catholics and one Protestant, at the Rising Sun bar on Halloween night >1993. The attack was carried out in revenge for the IRA massacre which >killed nine Protestants on Belfast's Shankill Road. >The Greysteel killer's neo-Nazi liaison comes at a time of deepening >conflict between Combat 18 and the London section of the UDA. Frank >Portinari, a Camden-based convicted gun-runner with an Italian-Catholic >background, leads the UDA in the capital. >Portinari joined the UDA in the 1980s, becoming its London organiser in >1988. Portinari led violent protests at Irish republican marches in London. >Seven years ago he was convicted for his part in an arms smuggling operation >in the Midlands. >When he was released from prison, Portinari fell out with his former allies >in Combat 18. He sided with Charlie Sergeant who was exposed two years ago >as a police informer spying on loyalist terrorists in England. >Portinari and his London UDA are alleged to have threatened to shoot members >of Combat 18. (James: However, maybe better this type of messages rather to kominform. Heikki) > > > > > > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
