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11/10/2002
Man seriously injured in Bangor gun attack
A man has been seriously injured in a gun attack which police have linked to the bloody loyalist feud.
Police are treating the shooting of the 41-year-old man in Bangor, Co Down, as attempted murder after he was shot in his home in the early hours of Friday morning.
The man got out of his bed at around 1am to answer a knock at the door of the house at Church Street in the town.
However, before reaching the door several shots were fired through the glass pane, hitting the man in the chest and stomach.
He was subsequently was taken to the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald where his condition was described as stable.
The feud between the ultra-hardline paramilitary groups the LVF and the UDA erupted in the nearby town of Newtownards on September 13 when a senior LVF member was gunned down as he sat in his car. The second murder of the feud occurred on October 4 when Geoffrey Gray was killed by a single shotgun blast in east Belfast. He too had links with the Portadown-based LVF.
The friction within loyalism has seen a purge within the UDA, which expelled its most infamous member - the 'C' Company commander Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair. He, along with the man who set up the UFF in the 70s, John White, were expelled from the UDA on September 26. Adair was known to be sympathetic to the LVF and was close to its founder Billy Wright.
Detectives in Bangor have appealed for anybody with information to contact them.
(MB)
Police are treating the shooting of the 41-year-old man in Bangor, Co Down, as attempted murder after he was shot in his home in the early hours of Friday morning.
The man got out of his bed at around 1am to answer a knock at the door of the house at Church Street in the town.
However, before reaching the door several shots were fired through the glass pane, hitting the man in the chest and stomach.
He was subsequently was taken to the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald where his condition was described as stable.
The feud between the ultra-hardline paramilitary groups the LVF and the UDA erupted in the nearby town of Newtownards on September 13 when a senior LVF member was gunned down as he sat in his car. The second murder of the feud occurred on October 4 when Geoffrey Gray was killed by a single shotgun blast in east Belfast. He too had links with the Portadown-based LVF.
The friction within loyalism has seen a purge within the UDA, which expelled its most infamous member - the 'C' Company commander Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair. He, along with the man who set up the UFF in the 70s, John White, were expelled from the UDA on September 26. Adair was known to be sympathetic to the LVF and was close to its founder Billy Wright.
Detectives in Bangor have appealed for anybody with information to contact them.
(MB)
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