Article by Newton Emerson, from the 13 November 2008 edition of the Irish News:
Sir Hugh Orde made two revelations at last week’s policing board meeting regarding police contracts with a Portadown building firm once owned by a prominent member of the UVF.
The first was that the contracts totalled almost £5 million between 1999 and 2004, rather than the £320,000 initially stated. The second was that the firm in question, the Jameson Group, failed PSNI security vetting twice before the NIO cleared it on appeal.
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From Thursday’s Irish News by Barry McCaffrey:
A Co Armagh building company linked to an alleged UVF leader was paid more than £5 million by the PSNI, it can now be revealed.
In January 2000, alleged mid-Ulster UVF leader Richard Jameson was shot dead by the LVF near his home in Portadown.
The murder sparked a bitter loyalist feud that claimed the lives of Protestant teenagers David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb less than a month later.
Jameson’s building company had been awarded a series of contracts to work on police stations, prisons and British army bases.
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Supergrass legs it to England with new I.D.
From the 26 October 2008 edition of the Sunday World, by John Cassidy:
A LOYALIST ‘supergrass’ has been described in court as a “high profile and active terrorist’’ in the
ruthless Mid-Ulster UVF brigade.
And fatboy slim Mark Burcombe has been linked by a PSNI Criminal Investigation Department intelligence file to ONE murder and TWO attempted murders.
The Sunday World can reveal the the 27-year-old UVF terrorist was arrested in connection with other loyalist paramilitary activity in the Mid-Ulster area. Yet despite knowing about Burcombe’s “active’’ involvement with the banned terror group, the Public Prosecution Service and the PSNI agreed to allow Burcombe to enter the ‘supergrass’ system in return for giving evidence against his co-accused Steven Revels.
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