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A victims' campaigner has said new images of loyalist killer Michael Stone enjoying a seaside walk after being controversially released on parole last month make for "difficult viewing". Kenny Donaldson was speaking after the first pictures emerged of the Milltown Cemetery bomber since being freed from jail. The 65-year-old, wearing a clearly visible bulletproof vest, was photographed strolling along the coast with his wife Karan and their dog. Mr Donaldson, the spokesman for Innocent Victims United, told the Belfast Telegraph: "It will be difficult viewing for innocents of Michael Stone's t...
Stone was released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. However, he was sent back to jail in 2006 after an attempt to murder Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at Stormont. He entered Parliament Buildings armed with explosives, knives and an axe, but bizarrely claimed the episode was an act of performance art. He was told in 2013 that he must serve the rest of the 30-year tariff on his life sentence. Stone, a father of nine, married his third wife Karan in a ceremony at Maghaberry Prison in 2016. Last November the Court of Appeal overturned a decision that h...
This is loyalist killer Michael Stone - pictured for the first time since being freed from jail - enjoying a seaside walk.
Michael Stone Stone's attack killed three people - civilians Thomas McErlean (20) and John Murray (26), and 30-year-old IRA man Kevin Brady. After his arrest, he admitted to three other murders, including killing Catholic milkman Patrick Brady (36) in south Belfast in 1984. He also admitted the killings of joiner Kevin McPolin in Lisburn in 1985 and bread delivery driver Dermot Hackett near Drumquin in Co Tyrone two years later. Stone was released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. However, he was sent back to jail in 2006 after an attempt to murder Sinn Fein leaders Gerry ...