The Police Ombudsman in the North is to issue a public statement in relation to an investigation into the police handling of certain loyalist paramilitary murders and attempted murders during the period 1989 to 1993.
Among those murders Mrs Marie Anderson will speak about will be the murder of Eddie Fullerton at Buncrana, on 25 May 1991.
A man in his 50s was recently arrested and held in Letterkenny Garda station in relation to this investigation but was released without charge.
The report considers police actions in relation to 19 murders and a number of attempted murders.
Others inlcude murders at Castlerock in Derry on 25 March 1993 and at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel on 30 October 1993.
All of the attacks were carried out by the UDA/UFF based in the north west of Northern Ireland.
The murders and attempted murders referred to in the report are as follows:
The murder of Gerard Casey at Rasharkin, County Antrim, on 4 April 1989;
The murder of Patrick Shanaghan at Castlederg, County Tyrone, on 12 August 1991;
The murder of Thomas Donaghy, at Kilrea, County Derry/Londonderry, on 16 August 1991;
The murder of Bernard O’Hagan at Magherafelt, County Derry/Londonderry, on 16 September 1991;
The attempted murder of James McCorriston at Coleraine, County Derry/Londonderry, on 14 February 1992;
The murder of Daniel Cassidy at Kilrea, County Derry/Londonderry, on 2 April 1992;
The attempted murder of Patrick McErlain at Dunloy, County Antrim, on 28 August 1992;
The murder of Malachy Carey at Ballymoney, County Antrim. Mr Carey was shot on 12 December 1992 and died the following day as a result of his injuries;
The murders of Robert Dalrymple, James Kelly, James McKenna, and Noel O’Kane at Castlerock, County Derry/Londonderry, on 25 March 1993. A fifth man, Gerard McEldowney, was seriously injured in this attack; and
The murders of John Burns, Moira Duddy, Joseph McDermott, James Moore, John Moyne, Steven Mullan, and Karen Thompson at the Rising Sun Bar, Greysteel, County Derry/Londonderry, on 30 October 1993. An eighth victim, Samuel Montgomery, died as a result of injuries sustained in the attack on 14 April 1994.
A number of families made complaints about police actions surrounding the murder of their loved ones, resulting in the former Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire commencing a broad-ranging thematic investigation into the complaints and other linked incidents.
The statement and an accompanying press release will be issued by email on the morning of Thursday 13 January 2022, embargoed until 00:01 hours on Friday 14 January 2022.
