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30/11/2007
Shoukri Jailed For Extortion
A heavy prison sentence has been handed down to a leading north Belfast loyalist for extortion.
Andre Shoukri has been sentenced to nine years jail for trying to force a pub owner to hand over thousands of pounds.
Belfast Crown Court heard he used his Ulster Defence Association status to force his victim to hand over cash.
Prosecuting barrister Gordon Kerr said the paramilitary had become more and more aggressive, constantly making demands and accusing his victim of holding money back.
In all, 30-year-old Shoukri was jailed on a total of 18 charges including using 'certain criminal property, namely a money transfer' from a building society, to buy his Clare Heights home in Belfast in November 2004.
Jailed with him was John 'Bonzer' Boreland, 38, from Sunningdale Gardens, on four charges of blackmail, one of intimidation and one of possessing a firearm or imitation firearm to commit assault, and 25-year-old Terry Harbinson from Tyndale Gardnes, Belfast, who admitted charges of blackmail and intimidation and possession.
Boreland was also given nine years, while Harbinson was jailed for seven years.
A former London Met policeman 47-year-old Ian Peter Craig of Garland Hill, Manse Road, Belfast, turned mortgage advisor who aided and abetted, counselled or procured Shoukri in the dishonest obtaining of a money transfer was freed when his two-year jail term was suspended for three years.
(BMcC)
Andre Shoukri has been sentenced to nine years jail for trying to force a pub owner to hand over thousands of pounds.
Belfast Crown Court heard he used his Ulster Defence Association status to force his victim to hand over cash.
Prosecuting barrister Gordon Kerr said the paramilitary had become more and more aggressive, constantly making demands and accusing his victim of holding money back.
In all, 30-year-old Shoukri was jailed on a total of 18 charges including using 'certain criminal property, namely a money transfer' from a building society, to buy his Clare Heights home in Belfast in November 2004.
Jailed with him was John 'Bonzer' Boreland, 38, from Sunningdale Gardens, on four charges of blackmail, one of intimidation and one of possessing a firearm or imitation firearm to commit assault, and 25-year-old Terry Harbinson from Tyndale Gardnes, Belfast, who admitted charges of blackmail and intimidation and possession.
Boreland was also given nine years, while Harbinson was jailed for seven years.
A former London Met policeman 47-year-old Ian Peter Craig of Garland Hill, Manse Road, Belfast, turned mortgage advisor who aided and abetted, counselled or procured Shoukri in the dishonest obtaining of a money transfer was freed when his two-year jail term was suspended for three years.
(BMcC)
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