Sick unionism and it's cohorts

Teachers, "police", schoolchildren, the wider community - what a sick nauseous regime! Maybe the McCartney sisters could
offer Mr.McIlveen a few tips.


http://www.dailyireland.com/home.tvt?_scope=DailyIreland/Content/News&id=11579&opp=1

Murder witness threats


The father of a teenager who witnessed the brutal beating dished out to murdered Ballymena schoolboy Michael McIlveen
has said his son?s life is under threat.
Ballymena man Danny Graham said he feared for his son Christopher?s life after the PSNI warned the family the teenager
was at risk of attack.
It has emerged that the 16-year-old was taken out of Slemish College in Ballymena during his GCSE exams in June after
the PSNI warned he could be attacked during school hours or outside school.
It is understood that teachers at the college advised the student?s
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parents to keep him away from the integrated school for his own safety.
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The teenager?s father last night said he feared for the safety of his son. His fears were heightened two weeks after a
second son, 27-year-old
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from the spot where
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Michael McIlveen was attacked.
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Mr Graham says his family has been living under a cloud of fear since Michael McIlveen was beaten at the rear of their
family home in May. The 15-year-old died a day later from his injuries.
?I feel like my whole family is under threat. The big concern for me is
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that since the police got statements from us they have not wanted to
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know us. They have left us on our own. Nobody is helping us at all and
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we feel like we are on our own. I feel we are in fear of our lives, but I am worried more so for my young boy. All you
have to do is look to what happened to Michael.?
The worried father says his family members will not be intimidated into withdrawing statements given to the PSNI in the
wake of Michael McIlveen?s murder.
?We have our concerns but wrong is wrong and that fellow didn?t deserve that and it?s the right thing to do. We won?t be
dropping our statements.?
Mr Graham also revealed that his son narrowly escaped serious injury after he and a group of friends were set on by
loyalists in an attack similar to the one that resulted in the death of Michael McIlveen.
Mr Graham says the attack on his son Paul has shaken the family.
?When the police arrived I brought Paul out and he was bleeding from the head. The policeman told me to give him a call
the next day. But after Michael was beaten he was able to go home with a serious head injury. I was worried about Paul
and this policeman wanted me to ring him the next day.?
A spokesperson for the PSNI said: ?We don?t comment on the security of individuals.?
Earlier this month nationalists reacted angrily after it emerged that
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loyalists in Ballymena have circulated a sick video mocking the brutal
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murder of Michael McIlveen. The existence of the video came to light
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just days after loyalists in Ahoghill, near Ballymena, erected a
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tricolour on an eleventh night bonfire with the words ?*** Micky Bo?, a
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reference to the dead teenager, scrawled across it.
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Six men have been charged in connnection with the death of Michael McIlveen.
Ballymena SDLP councillor Monica Digney said: ?We have been aware of this intimidation for a long time. It?s a total
disgrace. The McIlveen failimy needs all the support it can get at this time.?
l and we feel like we are on our own.
?I feel we are in fear of our lives but I am worried more so for my young boy.
?All you have to do is look to what happened to Michael,? said Mr Graham.
The worried father said his family members would not be intimidated into withdrawing statements given to the PSNI in the
wake of Michael McIlveen?s murder.
?We have our concerns but wrong is wrong, and that fellow didn?t deserve that and it?s the right thing to do. We won?t
be dropping our statements,? he said.
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