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Northern Ireland: Unionist’s feud killing damned by politicians
Paramilitary with criminal links shot in North Belfast

NORTHERN Irish leaders condemned Sunday night’s murder of loyalist paramilitary John “Bonzer” Boreland yesterday in an apparent internecine shooting.

The senior member of the dissident north Belfast group of the Ulster Defence Association was gunned down just before 10pm in Sunningdale Gardens in the unionist Bally­sillan area.

His section, led by Egyptian-Irish loyalist “brigadier” Andre Shoukri, had been involved in local feuds with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

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