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07/09/2011
Loyalist Killing Gets Court Focus
The second day of Ulster's biggest trial since the mid-1980s, when the original supergrass system collapsed is now underway.
Heavy security again surrounds the proceedings at Laganside Court in Belfast, amid tensions over the use of the evidence of accomplices.
One of the two brothers, David Stewart, who have turned terrorist 'Queen's Evidence' is expected to be giving evidence against former loyalist comrades later today.
He is testifying against 14 alleged Ulster Volunteer Force members, including the man said to be a former RUC Special Branch agent Mark Haddock.
Stewart's brother, 37-year-old Robert Stewart, began his evidence on Tuesday against their alleged former friends and UVF associates from the terror group's notorious Mount Vernon unit in north Belfast.
Both escaped life sentences for their part in the murder of rival loyalist Tommy English because they have agreed to give evidence.
The Stewart brothers confessed to their roles in the murder of the UDA boss at his Newtownabbey home, during a loyalist feud in 2000.
Robert Stewart will first continue to give evidence but may also be cross-examined by defence lawyers.
Yesterday, he had already alleged Haddock ordered the tit-for-tat killing.
(BMcC/GK)
Heavy security again surrounds the proceedings at Laganside Court in Belfast, amid tensions over the use of the evidence of accomplices.
One of the two brothers, David Stewart, who have turned terrorist 'Queen's Evidence' is expected to be giving evidence against former loyalist comrades later today.
He is testifying against 14 alleged Ulster Volunteer Force members, including the man said to be a former RUC Special Branch agent Mark Haddock.
Stewart's brother, 37-year-old Robert Stewart, began his evidence on Tuesday against their alleged former friends and UVF associates from the terror group's notorious Mount Vernon unit in north Belfast.
Both escaped life sentences for their part in the murder of rival loyalist Tommy English because they have agreed to give evidence.
The Stewart brothers confessed to their roles in the murder of the UDA boss at his Newtownabbey home, during a loyalist feud in 2000.
Robert Stewart will first continue to give evidence but may also be cross-examined by defence lawyers.
Yesterday, he had already alleged Haddock ordered the tit-for-tat killing.
(BMcC/GK)
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