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PEOPLE ON THE periphery of a republican group that carried out the killing of Derry man Andrew Allen in Donegal may have knowledge of the plan to kill him, according to gardaí.
They’re being urged to come forward with information as part of a fresh appeal to mark the sixth anniversary of the 24-year-old’s killing.
The young man was shot several times at his home in Links View Park in Buncrana at 9.20pm on 9 February 2012.
A silver Vauxhall Cavalier that gardaí believe was used in the killing was located later at Churchbrea, Fahan, a short distance outside Buncrana.
A group known as Republican Action Against Drugs later claimed his murder.
Later the same year that group merged with other republican splinter groups to form the New IRA.
“Gardai believe that a number of people were involved in planning this murder, the destruction of evidence and subsequently sheltering of those involved,” a statement said.
It added:
An Garda Siochana are grateful for all the witnesses that have come forward and made statements but gardaí believe that there are still people in both Buncrana and Derry city who have information that may assist with the investigation.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie Detective Inspector Pat O’Donnell said he was making a particular appeal to people on the fringes of RAAD to get in contact.
He was making the appeal to those on the periphery rather than those directly involved, he said, “because they basically are hardline republicans”.
“There is an outer ring in that group who would have had knowledge of what went on, what happened on the day and what happened in between.”
O’Donnell said: “With the passage of time circumstances change, relationships break up … I feel confidence in the human race that there are people out there with consciences.”
I know people are thinking about what they know. We will deal with every piece of information we get in confidence and treat it sensitively.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact:
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PSNI will have a very good idea of who was responsible (the dogs in the street know) and indeed who the ringleaders of RAAD are. Despite countless shootings in Derry itself they have been useless in building any sort of decent case
@Dreyfus: Unfortunately, the dogs on the street don’t make good, or convincing, witnesses. Those that know won’t open their mouths. The omerta continues.
@Honeybadger197: pfff Omerta? riddled with touts is the technical term
Hypocrisy is killing decent republicanism.
You can’t really be anti-drugs if you’re just clearing the market of suspected drug dealing competitors, so as to deal industrially into that same market – and looks like they got the wrong guy in this case.
IRA associations with Ireland’s major drug families needs to stop.
Hopefully Mary Lou will establish real leadership over her all-Ireland decent republican constituency and just say ‘no more drugs business’. The party has to move forward and she has the mandate to put an end to the criminality, murder, bank robberies, drug industry and intimidation that is destroying decent republicanism.
#backmaryloutocleanupSF
@alphanautica: Interesting. The Republican splinter groups discussed in this article aren’t affiliated with SF though.
@Daffy the Bear: it’s like Trump enjoying the KKK vote. Real leadership takes guts and can lose votes.
@alphanautica: What has Mary Lou and/or SF got to do with dissident republicans? Oh that’s right, NOTHING! other than of course to go on a rant and might I say leave yourself open to a charge of defamation. Are you trying to say that Mary Lou McDonald is somehow involved in an organization that is linked with the drug trade? Are you saying that Sinn Fein is linked with the drug trade or any of the other criminal acts that you mentioned? Are you linking Sinn Fein members to the drugs trade?
Answer on a postcard C/O The Four Courts.
@No One: I said what I said. Are you, by asking those questions, in possession of information we should know about?
On the one hand there’s this: http://www.thejournal.ie/new-ira-dublin-michael-keogh-3433562-Jun2017/
But then it’s not clear whether SF are For or Against dissidents
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/sf-mayor-urged-to-apologise-after-addressing-rally-for-jailed-dissident-1-8072736
Maybe you can help set the story straight?
@alphanautica: you’re making a terrible argument, nothing got to do with SF, if anything the Labour Party has been flirting with dissidents and would have more influence with the NIRA, remember the officials, they never really disbanded or decommissioned.
@Daffy the Bear: were
@alphanautica: what the hell are you on about?
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