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active, violent, ruthless.. and out on bail?

Wed 26 April 2006, 10:06pm

In their report today, the IMC stated they were unchanged in their analysis of the activity of the UVF, saying “We do not therefore change our overall assessment that the organisation is active, violent and ruthless”. Today, as the BBC report, 6 men who admitted being members of the UVF, after initially denying membership, have been “released on bail pending completion of pre-sentence reports in June when they will be sentenced”.From the 10th IMC report – on the UVF -

2.31There has been some effort by elements of the UVF leadership to tackle criminality. As with the leadership of the UDA, we recognise that there are certain people who want to move away from criminality. We welcome this wherever it occurs but at this stage we do not see any significant impact on the behaviour of the organisation as a whole. Nor has there as yet been the positive move to stop targeting nationalists and ethnic minorities for which we called in our Eighth Report. We do not therefore change our overall assessment that the organisation is active, violent and ruthless, and the recent statement from a spokesman that it does not intend to do more before 24 November 2006 is not encouraging.

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Comments (3)

  1. heck says:

    2.31″There has been some effort by elements of the UVF leadership to tackle criminality.”

    Did’nt the police ombudsman say that almost all the UVF leadership were british agents. if only some elements of the UVF leadership are tackling criminality what are the other british agents doing? Or did the IMC not even ask?

    This IMC report is a farce. Sorry the IMC is a farce!

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  2. Shore Road Resident says:

    Sinn Fein will be quoting from IMC reports chapter and verse within 12 months.

    Please grow up.

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  3. fair_deal says:

    heck

    “the police ombudsman say that almost all the UVF leadership were british agents”

    No she didn’t a sunday times headline did. The article itself identified three agents all of whom were members of the same UVF unit. The claim of “most” the headline was based upon was a list Raymond McCord had given to Bertie Ahern. The Ombudsman’s report and her views are still to be released.

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