“What is particularly striking is the bare-facedness of sometimes masked activity relating to this feud.'
A district judge has said he has never known such an “insolent interaction” with the criminal justice process as has occurred during a loyalist drugs feud in Co Down.
The five defendants from Newtownards – David Milligan, 43, from Shackleton Walk, Samuel Coulter, 56, from Cambourne Mews, David James Thompson, 40, from Fir Drive, Jimmy Leung, 35, from Glenbrook Road and Noel Thomas Morrison, 48, from Stirling Avenue – are all accused of being part of a large group of men who entered the Weaver’s Grange estate in the town on April 6.
A PSNI detective constable told the court she could connect the five accused to the charges. However, lawyers for the defendants objected to the connections. Lawyers for the five accused raised a number of objections to the police connections to the charges, including concerns over the reliability of the witness statement.
“In all the years of the Troubles I have never known such a direct and insolent interaction with the legal process.
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