"Sean Kelly the Shankill bomber and murderer caught on camera at an Ardoyne Riot - 2005 "

Sean Kelly the Shankill Bomber who murdered nine people and got early release as a member of the IRA as directed by the 1998 Belfast Agreement is caught in 2005 on camera at a riot in the Ardoyne.

The face of Shan kill bomber Sean Kelly — is caught on camera dur­ing violence that erupted In north Belfast last week.

Merciless mass-Killer Kelly (33) is no stranger to confrontation.

It seems that, whenever trouble flares in Ardoyne, he is never far away.

Republican sources insist Kelly is a committed community worker, whose presence at interface disturbances is aimed at encouraging younger ele­ments from becoming embroiled in sectarian clashes.

But, last night, one Shankill Road councillor hit out, saying: "When we see this man on our TV screens, or in the papers, it is an affront to our com­munity."

Eighteen police officers were in­jured during run­ning battles between Celtic and Rangers fans last Sunday, after Rangers clinched the Scottish Premier League title.

A female officer was dragged from her Land-Rover in Ardoyne and beaten, before having a bottle smashed over her head.

Besieged cops were forced to close off the Crumlin Road, Woodvale Road and Twadell Avenue as they tried to calm a 200-strong mob. . More trouble also flared on the White well Road and Limestone Road, and at Lanark Way.

Two years ago, loyalist politicians demanded that Kelly should be re­turned to prison, after claiming he was orchestrating rioting.

He was also photographed at the time mingling with senior IRA fig­ures.

Kelly was sent down for life for the murders of nine innocent people — two of them children — in the Shankill bomb horror, in October 1993.

But he served only four years, before being freed on licence under the Good Friday Agreement.

Councillor Hugh Smyth, whose Court ward takes in the Shankill and Crumlin, said: "Kelly has never ut­tered the word 'sorry 1 for that terrible deed.

"The people of the Shankill are still trying hard to come to terms with what happened on that fateful day.

"Yet the man who visited such pain on them is able to strut the streets in such a grotesque manner.

"We occasionally see his face during

disturbances, and it only brings back the pain of his wicked act"

One eyewitness to the riot told Sun­day Life: "There were a couple of Sinn Fein members at the front of the crowd trying to get the rioters offside. Kelly was with them.

"There were known IRA players from Ardoyne and the Markets there, too-

"Kelly seemed genuinely to be trying to calm things down, ushering people away.

"He was ducking to avoid incoming bricks and stones.

"I didn't see him with anything in his hand at any stage. He did seem to be saying to them [the rioters]: 'Cool it'."

Kelly said, in 1995, that he "deep, regretted" the loss of innocent lives i the atrocity.

His mother, Anne Kelly, commented in the aftermath of the outrage: "If I 1 known what he was going to do, would have shot him myself an buried him in the garden."

• A 27-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with last Saturday's riot

The man, who is from north Belfast was charged with riotous behaviour at Twaddell Avenue, in Ardoyne.