SEFF remembers Francis Taggart, 17, youngest of 4, RC storeman, from Beechland Dr in Lisburn who had been playing snooker with his friends & taking a short cut home at 3:00am on 18/3/91, when he was attacked & stabbed by loyalists behind the town's leisure centre.
While a gp..
While a gp..
..of men carried out the murder, a grp of girls had been watching the path. Francis was stabbed 62 times in head, neck & trunk.
Reliable loyalist sources said the UVF was responsible. Rhonda Paisley, then Belfast DUP councillor said "the attack was a vile & horrible waste of..
Reliable loyalist sources said the UVF was responsible. Rhonda Paisley, then Belfast DUP councillor said "the attack was a vile & horrible waste of..
..a young life. There are those who know who & where the killers are & in not revealing their whereabouts, they are, in fact, permitting them to kill again".
A 23-yr-old from Lisburn was later sentenced to life. He said that he & a others followed Francis from the town. He ...
A 23-yr-old from Lisburn was later sentenced to life. He said that he & a others followed Francis from the town. He ...
..added that he and another man had stabbed him several times and a 3rd man took the knife: "he went mad and started sticking it into the wee fellow everywhere".
SEFF's thoughts and prayer are with all innocents impacted by Francis' brutal murder.
SEFF's thoughts and prayer are with all innocents impacted by Francis' brutal murder.
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