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(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Lisa Smyth
The Ulster Volunteer Force appears hell-bent on driving out rival members of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, it was claimed last night.
After the bitter feud between the two terror groups claimed its third victim, 28-year-old Stephen Paul in north Belfast on Saturday evening, Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey said the UVF, which has carried out all the murders, was not responding to requests to negotiate an end to the violence.
"This was another appalling murder," the East Belfast Assembly member said.
"I and others have appealed for mediation and I know there have been attempts at that but those initial contacts have had a negative response from the UVF."
Mr Paul, a notorious LVF-linked criminal and convicted wife beater, was shot dead and another man wounded around 5.40pm on Saturday as they sat in a van near a house in Wheatfield Crescent, off north Belfast's Crumlin Road.