SHANKILL BUTCHER HEADED UVF GANG WHICH TORTURED STABBING VICTIM
Paramilitaries branded hypocrites for using stabbing as excuse for race riots
Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher.
Loyalists explained how Ogilvie moved to Edinburgh more than 20 years ago after falling foul of paramilitaries in the Rathcoole estate in Newtownabbey.
Once across the Irish Sea, the 44-year-old was targeted by UVF killer Mark ‘Gutsy’ Campbell, who was the gunman who shot dead Protestants Cecil Dougherty and William Corrigan in 1994.
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Ogilvie ended up returning to Northern Ireland after giving evidence against his tormentors, with six men jailed for more than 60 years.
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Ogilvie entered into a life of petty crime and when he last appeared in court in 2020 for assault on police and disorderly behaviour, it was revealed he has 161 convictions.
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Loyalist sources say the irony of paramilitaries using the attack on him as an excuse for race-hate rioting — given they had spent decades torturing him — is stark.
One told us: "Stephen Ogilvie had to leave Northern Ireland because of the UVF, he had his hands broken by them, and he was the victim of a torture attack in Scotland by a gang led by UVF gunman Gutsy Campbell. Now you have the UVF exploiting the stabbing and using it as an excuse to start riots in Newtownabbey and Belfast."
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-life/20260614/281535117685447
Stabbing and burning people out of their houses are not new in Northern Ireland, and nor are other criminal paramilitary activities and manifestations of sectarianism.
The racist opportunists clambering on this bandwagon would do well to come clean about that, but they won't.
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