"Michael McKevitt was Tullyvallen killer"

Jailed Real IRA boss Michael McKevitt is today named as one of the men behind the Tullyvallen Orange Hall massacre.
McKevitt, who was then in the Provisional IRA, was one of the gunmen involved in the savage sectarian attack, according to a dossier handed to police urging that they re-open the investigations into a series of paramilitary murders.
McKevitt was a top Provo in the south Armagh area before breaking away to form the dissident group behind the Omagh bombing. He started his terror career as a triggerman in the IRA, more than two decades earlier.
The murder of five Orangeman at Tullyvallen, in September 1975, is just one of a number of PIRA atrocities he is suspected of being involved in. Five men died when an IRA gang sprayed their Orange Hall with machine-gun fire
William Robert McKee, 70. Nevin McConnell, 40, James McKee, 40 and John Johnston, 80, all died at the scene.
The fifth victim, William Herron, died two days later in hospital from his injuries. A Cullyhanna man, John McCooey, 22, was later jailed in connection with the brutal killings, after admitting being the driver for the gunmen. But the two triggermen who burst into the hall—and the others who fired from fields surrounding the hall — were never brought to justice. According to the dossier compiled by FAIR, McKevitt was actively involved in those murders and a number of other terrorist murders in the border area. They have also passed police details of another gunman who was himself shot by an off-duty member of the security forces during the attack. And FAIR claims that ballistic tests carried out on. the weapons, link the Tullyvallen murderers to their crimes. McKevitt was jailed for 20 years last week for directing terrorism — the first person convicted of the charge in the Republic. The Real IRA leader was also given sis years for membership of the organisation, during his sentencing at the Special Criminal Court in the Republic of Ireland. Sunday Life 10th August 2003

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