AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Court hears details of McCartney murder.
(From Newsletter)
MURDER victim Robert McCartney was followed up an alleyway by eight or nine men who all seemed to be carrying weapons, the High Court heard yesterday.
A Crown lawyer said a witness had told police that Mr McCartney was accompanied by his friend Brendan Devine who had been attacked minutes earlier in MagennisOs bar in May Street, Belfast.
The moments before Mr McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death were revealed during bail applications by Terence Davison, 49, from Stanfield Place in the Markets area of Belfast, and James McCormick, 36, also from Belfast, whose address was given as Victoria Road, Stechford, Birmingham.
Davison is accused of murdering Mr McCartney and McCormick with attempting to murder Mr Devine. Both deny the charges.
Crown lawyer Gordon Kerr, QC, said the evidence about the men being followed into the alleyway was in a statement made by a man known as OEO.
The defence applied for disclosure of the statement but Mr ...
- DRIVEN OUT; Their battle to win justice for their brother, murdered by IRA...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) July 14, 2005 700+ words
...family will move out of Belfast's Short Strand. It...concealed bitterness. The McCartney family has been a presence...enclave of Protestant East Belfast for 100 years. Now...in another part of Belfast, Bridgeen Hagans...young fiancee of Robert McCartney, and the mother of...
- McCARTNEY SISTERS & ACCUSED FACE TO FACE.. Belfast pair in the dock.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) June 5, 2005 700+ words
...with his murder. Mr McCartney's fiancee and five...public gallery at Belfast Magistrates' Court...who was with Mr McCartney on the night of the murder. Mr McCartney, who lived in the Short Strand area of Belfast with his fiancee...
- The Crime Lords; IRA men linked to McCartney killing who walk the streets of...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) March 10, 2005 700+ words
...the centre of Mr McCartney's murder have...following a brawl in a Belfast pub, Jim 'Dim...community for the McCartney family's campaign...Montgomery are among the Belfast IRA's most powerful...the beating of Mr McCartney and the 'cleanup...incident. Sources in Belfast claimed ...
- Exclusive Interview: 'I'll be able to grieve once we get justice'; In the three...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) May 8, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: LOUETTE HARDING Paula McCartney's front room is about 15...Strand, the Republican area of Belfast where the McCartneys grew up...enclave in Protestant East Belfast. Paula's house is on the...it was a triumph that the McCartney parents - father a carpet fitter...
- PLATFORM: Robert McCartney, leader of the UK Unionist Party: The reality behind...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) September 25, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Roberty McCartney EVENTS at Saturday's Ulster Unionist Council...deception which created and have sustained the Belfast Agreement. An Agreement that Mr Trimble once...Government". CAPTION(S): OPINION: Robert McCartney
- LETTER: Does the IRA want the McCartney family to solve Robert's...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) March 3, 2005 700+ words
...for the brutal murder of Robert McCartney in Belfast. To have achieved this is a...this problem will go away. The McCartney sisters, however, will not...information they should speak to the McCartney sisters or to their solicitor...
- Man due in court today over McCartney murder.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) June 4, 2005 700+ words
...Devine, who was with Mr McCartney in a Belfast bar on the night he...At her home outside Belfast last night, his sister Catherine McCartney said: 'We are happy...Birmingham, the other in Belfast. Mr McCartney and Mr Devine had been...
- Police to quiz man in McCartney case.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) July 2, 2005 700+ words
...murdering Robert McCartney outside a Belfast bar. They will...on the night Mr McCartney was stabbed to death on January 30. Belfast Magistrates Court...of-two Mr McCartney, 33, was stabbed...MagennisOs bar in Belfast city centre following...