19/10/2007
Court Hears Of Carrickfergus Turmoil
A court has been told of a large number of serious incidents, including shootings and death threats in the seaside town of Carrickfergus.
Belfast High Court was hearing applications from two of the five men arrested in the town last weekend after the latest outbreak of trouble between members of the mainstream paramilitary UDA and the breakaway South East Antrim faction.
A Crown lawyer said there had been three shooting incidents and a pipe bomb attack since July.
Death threats have also been made against more than 90 people caught up in a loyalist feud in the area,
He was speaking as two men appeared in court after an incident in the town.
Barry Waite, 33, from Sunningdale Crescent, and George Clarke, 43, from Castlemara Drive, both Carrickfergus, denied causing grievous bodily harm.
They were both ordered to lodge £600 in court before being released on bail.
The men were alleged to have attacked another man, Thompson Gilmore, who was said to have been stabbed and slashed in the wrists and also to have received a puncture wound to his shoulder.
(BMcC)
Belfast High Court was hearing applications from two of the five men arrested in the town last weekend after the latest outbreak of trouble between members of the mainstream paramilitary UDA and the breakaway South East Antrim faction.
A Crown lawyer said there had been three shooting incidents and a pipe bomb attack since July.
Death threats have also been made against more than 90 people caught up in a loyalist feud in the area,
He was speaking as two men appeared in court after an incident in the town.
Barry Waite, 33, from Sunningdale Crescent, and George Clarke, 43, from Castlemara Drive, both Carrickfergus, denied causing grievous bodily harm.
They were both ordered to lodge £600 in court before being released on bail.
The men were alleged to have attacked another man, Thompson Gilmore, who was said to have been stabbed and slashed in the wrists and also to have received a puncture wound to his shoulder.
(BMcC)
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