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Ex-policemen immersed in controversy.
(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Lisa Smyth and Heather Simpson
At one time a sectarian killer, now he's cleaning up graffiti on Catholic churches
A former policeman who carried out a sectarian murder in 1977, and later became a loyalist politician, has talked about his involvement in efforts to clean up graffiti at Catholic churches in Ballymena.
Billy McCaughey now appears to be distancing himself from the bitter Harryville protests in the 1990s, and says he was there to exert a calming influence over the loyalist crowds.
The controversial PUP man says he believed the area's reputation has never recovered from events at the church between 1996 and 1998, in which there were protests about a ban on loyal order parades in the nearby nationalist village of Dunloy.
The picketers said they were standing outside the Catholic church in solidarity with Protestant marchers who were unable to parade to their church.
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