| The republican INLA ("Irish National
Liberation Army")
today claimed responsibility for the shooting last night of Derry man Trevor Deeney. The tiny group which is opposed to the peace process claimed the dead man was a leading member of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) murder gangs. Mr Deeney was shot dead in the Waterside area after he returned from work at a car components plant on the outskirts of Derry. Mr Deeney was a brother of Jeffrey Deeney, who is serving a life sentence for his part in the Rising Sun bar massacre, when loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen shot dead seven people at Greysteel, County Derry, in 1993. The INLA has killed three people since Christmas, when they killed LVF leader Billy Wright in the H-Blocks. Since then it has killed two more people -- a loyalist paramilitary and an ex-RUC policeman. |