Sunday Life
‘IT WAS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE’
A hero dad who helped save the life of knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie has compared the attempted murder to a horror movie. Darren Devlin, who confronted the crazed attacker and rang the emergency services, said: “He tried to literally take his...
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OUSTED ONH CHIEF REILLY IN SIGHTS OF ‘JD’ ASSASSIN
Embattled dissident boss Carl Reilly is being hunted by the same assassin behind the clin-daylight ical executions of Jim ‘JD’ Donegan and Sean Fox. After 18 months of feuding, a breakaway faction of ONH, under the leadership of a militant veteran...
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REVEALED THE CHEATER WHOSE LIES GOT SECRET LOVER KILLED
This is the face of remorseless liar Helen Dunlop whose bogus claims she’d been attacked by her lover led to his murder. Steven Peck (33), who had no idea Ms Dunlop was married, was brutally beaten to death by her husband David Austin in 2021. After...
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JAIL PSYCHO ‘OUT TO GET’ NATALIE KILLER MCCULLAGH
YouTube killer Stephen McCullagh is under a behind bars threat from double murderer Shaun Hegarty. Prison chiefs are so concerned for the safety of the self-confessed “monster” who murdered Natalie McNally that they are holding him in a specialised...
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VIOLENT NAZI’S SUMMIT WITH COUNCIL OVER IMMIGRATION
A self-confessed Nazi and convicted woman beater met with top council officials to share his views on immigration. Mark Brown — who was also jailed for a race hate attack on a taxi driver — was part of a delegation of far-right activists who sat down...
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CRESWELL PAL’S SINISTER BID TO SILENCE KATIE WHISTLEBLOWER
This is the moment a pal of killer showjumper Jonathan Creswell threatened the hero who exposed him as Katie Simpson’s murderer. Paul Lusby managed to film himself being run off the road and assaulted by a friend of the thug. Within a year of the...
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WAR AND PEACE...
The New IRA is set to renew peace talks with the British government now that suspected Dunmurry police station bomber Zack Smyth is off the streets. The hardline dissident was remanded in custody yesterday, charged with attempted murder following the...
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HAULIER BUSTED WITH £2M OF THE FIRM’S CANNABIS
A major drug dealer for organised crime gang The Firm is facing prison for shipping one of the largest hauls of cannabis ever discovered in Northern Ireland. Lorry driver Mark Burke, described as a “family man” by friends, used his work as a haulier...
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BARBARIC
Speaking to Sunday Life from his hospital bed at the burns unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Richard McCrossan described the assault as a “dirty one” and said he was in “unbearable pain”. He continued: “There was a delay of a few seconds...
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BGT’S JORDAN: I HAD TO FACE DOWN MY ABUSER
Britain’s Got Talent finalist Jordan O’Keefe has recalled the day he confronted his childhood abuser in a bar. The singer, just eight years old when he was subjected to a sexual assault by an older boy, said carrying the secret of his ordeal...
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HYPOCRITES
A self-confessed drug dealer led the New IRA political wing’s Easter commemorations. Money-grabbing Ian Cotter was so well thought of by Saoradh that he was tasked with reading the Irish Proclamation next to the republican plot at Milltown Cemetery in...
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KILLER’S BID TO FIND NATALIE POLICE PROBE SECRETS
Natalie McNally’s killer posed as a journalist to try and obtain police information about the hunt for her murderer. Evil brute Stephen McCullagh rang up SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan, a member of the Policing Board, weeks after he murdered the pregnant...
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VETERAN COP DUPED INTO SEX DEAL BY PAEDOPHILE
This is the veteran PSNI officer whose 22-year career is in tatters after he was tricked into trying to pay for sex by a notorious paedophile. Shane Joseph McDonald (41) thought he was organising a meeting with an escort, but he was actually texting...
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA
UVF cocaine dealer Troy Deadman’s claims of being under a death threat by the terror gang have been laughed off by loyalists. The drug boss is hiding out in a nationalist area of Belfast after telling detectives he is being targeted by the...
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ELDERLY DAD OF KILLER WHO MASSACRED FAMILY ON GUN RAP
The elderly father of Maguiresbridge massacre killer Ian Rutledge has been charged with not properly securing a gun the day before the slaughter. Ernest ‘Ernie’ Rutledge (77) will appear in Enniskillen Magistrates Court tomorrow accused of failing to...
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KILLER IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS
Serving prisoners including a murderer and two violent armed robbers have been working in a luxury hotel where high-paying guests have no clue about their past. Alan Foster — who killed his stepmum by throwing her off a 40ft bridge — Martin Doherty,...
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CUT-THROAT KILLER IN YOUR LIVING ROOM
A cut-throat killer jailed for knifing his ex-fiancee more than 40 times has been granted Prison Service permission to enter the homes of unsuspecting women. As he nears the end of his life sentence, Andy Robinson is being allowed to work for a...
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‘I DIDN’T BUTCHER MY LITTLE BROTHER’
Billy McDermott insists he has “no idea” what happened to 10-year-old Brian McDermott, whose dismembered body was found in the River Lagan in Belfast in 1973. The unsolved murder is one of the most notorious in Northern Ireland’s history. PSNI legacy...
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RETURN OF UVF GANG’S GRUESOME TWOSOME
Serial-killing UVF Special Branch agent Mark Haddock has been invited back to Northern Ireland by his drug addict former henchman Darren Moore. The pair were in touch while Haddock served a 12year sentence for a stabbing in the maximum-security...
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HOWELL’S SEX KILLER BODYGUARD
Killer dentist Colin Howell has teamed up with a rapist and murderer to harass vulnerable prisoners into attending his behind-bars prayer meetings. Howell’s bodyguard is Kris Alauya (above), a Nigerian national serving life for strangling and sexually...
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LARNE TEAM BUS DRIVER ‘A DEALER FOR YEARS’
The drug dealer who drove the bus for title-winning Larne FC has been selling cannabis for almost two decades. Arlene Leitch can finally be unmasked as an unlikely crime queen after she pleaded guilty to importing a £10,000 drugs haul from...
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TRAITORS’ MATTHEW LOST UNCLE TO NEW IRA
The Traitors star Matthew Hyndman is nursing a secret heartbreak — his uncle was murdered by dissident republicans. Veteran prison officer David Black (below) was gunned down by the New IRA while travelling to work in 2012. His nephew Matthew was...
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FAMILY’S PAIN AS SCREWDRIVER KILLER FREED
The family of the muchloved pensioner murdered by screwdriver killer Stephen McKee say he is not welcome back on the streets. Relatives of Harry Holland hit out after the Prison Service granted the murderer and several other lifers leave over...
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KILLER FREED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
A knife-obsessed killer who stabbed a father-of-one to death was back walking the streets in time for Christmas. Fermanagh thug Gary Moane (50) — who stabbed 36-year-old Ciaran Woods (right) twice through the heart in 2010 at a house party — has been...
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THIEVES WON’T DESTROY DAITHI’S CHRISTMAS
Dáithí was all smiles yesterday despite thieves stealing his dad’s car But Máirtín Mac Gabhann said his nineyear-old son, who inspired a change in the law, would love one Christmas wish to be granted: the return of a European Championship football,...
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JAIL BOSSES’ TURKEY WITH KILLERS & PERVS
Director General Beverley Wall and Director of Prisons David Kennedy were among the top officials who sat down for a festive turkey dinner with 20 killers and perverts. Inmates included glued-lips murderer Adrian Hayes, serial sex attacker Tom...
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CHOCOLATE BLINDED IN ATTACK BY GANG RIVAL
Notorious drug baron John ‘The Chocolate’ McGivern was left blind in one eye during a vicious attack by a rival criminal. The 48-year-old was beaten to a pulp by Ebony Hughes — whose father Mark ‘The Chicken’ Lovell was shot dead in a gangland murder...
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