Dancer Karen Simpson

Deadly dancer Karen Simpson has a ghoulish secret.

Pole dance instructor Karen puts her pupils through a spooky dance of death in a coffin lined ‘studio’ that doubles up as an embalming room.

The Sunday World can lift the (coffin) lid on the creepy goings on at a nondescript warehouse in east Belfast where scantily clad dancers practice their routines in the company of coffins and body gurneys.

These shocking and ghoulish images show two girls practising for the All Ireland Pole Dancing Championships on the premises of the east Belfast business Simpson Embalming Services, used by funeral directors across Northern Ireland.

 

A whistle-blower contacted the Sunday World after making the chilling discovery that dance training takes place on the same premises used to prepare bodies for burial.

Video footage confirms that Simpson erected two poles in the main room of the small warehouse on the Alanbrook Industrial Estate to accommodate her award-winning performers.

The girls who were filmed repeatedly practising their impressive dance moves appear unfazed by the fact there is a coffin and medical gurney within arm’s reach.

Simpsons Embalming Services, which is owned by Karen, assists funeral directors by preparing bodies for burial. Karen and her husband run the business with the help of one member of staff.

Between them they are on call 24/7, their service included picking up the bodies of those who have recently passed away, transporting them to their warehouse/dance studio, embalming the bodies before returning them to funeral homes.

“The video clearly shows two girls pole dancing in front of a coffin in the embalming business in Belfast. 

“They obviously have little or no respect for the grieving families or funeral directors who employ their services let alone that of the dead who are left in their care,” the whistle-blower told the Sunday World.

“I think it is a complete disgrace that these graphic dance shows are carried out in full view of someone’s coffin let alone in a supposed sanitised place that is used for embalming procedures on the dead bodies of peoples loved ones,” the source added.

Sources insist Simpsons Embalming Services should be investigated by the Association of Funeral Directors and Belfast City Council.

“This is absolutely shocking, there is no reason in the world whatsoever that this should have happened. 

“This is the same as a morgue letting people in off the street to do whatever they please.

“It cannot be proved that there was a body in the coffin but from the footage and the obvious ease of the girls that this was not a one of and with that it would be safe to say that the probability that these dance practises took place when there were bodies on the premises and strong possibility.

“This is wrong on so many levels. If I had entrusted a dead relative to this company and discovered that this was going on I would be broken hearted. Where is the respect and the sense of decency?” a source added.

This week the Sunday World visited the premises and saw the dance area, surrounded by coffins.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by Nikki Ruddy Pole Kittens at 3.20pm on September 15 last month the night after the All Ireland Pole Dancing Championships.

“I thought id put one of our run throughs up so you can c what was actually supposed to happen last night!lol” the post read.

Karen Simpson commented: “Youse worked so hard on that move it was your easiest one ffs ironic!!”

As well as the profitable embalming business, which earns her over £100,000 per year she owns Karen Pole Kittens NI which has premises on the Woodstock Road in Belfast.

Last night when confronted by the Sunday World Karen Simpson denied all knowledge.

“I know nothing about this. I really don’t know what you are talking about. I’ll have to look into this because I really don’t know what yu are talking about,” Karen Simpson claimed despite commenting on the video clip of Facebook last month.

paula.mackin@nth.sundayworld.com

Northern Ireland has become the first part of the UK to vote in favour of a bill that will make it illegal for a person to pay for sex.

The private member's bill on exploitation and human trafficking was debated on Monday before being passed.

However, it will take some time before it passes into law here, with clause six of the bill banning paying for sex in Northern Ireland.

Sex workers protested outside Stormont on Monday, with some wearing face masks in order to protect their anonymity.

The bill was initially proposed by Lord Morrow of the DUP, aimed at tightening up laws surrounding human trafficking - a growing problem in Northern Ireland.

A Queen's University study revealed last week that around 17,500 men pay for sex each year in Northern Ireland.

 

An Ipsos Mori survey also showed that 80% of people in Northern Ireland are in support of the new law to ban paying for sex. 

Sex workers protest outside Stormont on Monday 

In a statement from a group representing sex workers in Northern Ireland, a spokesperson said that they do not support the move.

The statement read: "We, as sex workers are devastated to hear about the news that the purchase of sex will be criminalised in Northern Ireland under the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill. This new bill will only drive sex work further underground and make it more dangerous for the most marginalised sex workers.

"Northern Ireland Assembly are not listening to current sex workers who will be affected by this new legislation and the evidence released by the Department of Justice on Friday backs this up."

They added: "98% of sex workers surveyed are against this new law and 85% working in the industry said it would not reduce trafficking.

"We ask the Northern Ireland Assembly to reconsider this law and look at the evidence. This law will not reduce trafficking and will make working conditions more unsafe."

The scene in Bessbrook where the two-year-old was attacked

A two-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after a suspected assault in Bessbrook, County Armagh.

A man in his 20s has been arrested and is currently in police custody.

The incident happened at Charlemont Square East in Bessbrook at around 7.45pm on Sunday evening.

The PSNI are appealing for witnesses or anyone with any information to contact them. 

Brendan Devine

This is the man who once told the Sunday World that he is haunted by the memory of seeing his best friend beaten and stabbed to death in one of Ulster’s most notorious, and still unsolved, murders.

Brendan Devine had his throat cut in the same IRA bloodletting which claimed the life of his friend and drinking pal Robert McCartney.

The January 30, 2005 murder sparked an international storm the whole way from Stormont to the White House in Washington. 

But we can reveal that 40-year-old Devine, who miraculously survived the slaughter, is now on the run himself from cops.

The Belfast father-of-three is the chief suspect for doling out a brutal bar stool beating in a city docklands bar last weekend. 

And we can also reveal that his victim is himself a 49-year-old suspect facing trial for attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. 

 

He is Hugh ‘Applegoat’ McCormick, from Rosevale Street in Belfast. 

Our sources report that ‘Applegoat’, originally from the Market area of the city, was in the bar last Saturday afternoon when Devine, a self-confessed drugs user jailed in the past for attacking a nightclub bouncer and for armed robbery, stormed in. 

They say Devine gave Hugh McCormick ‘a fierce dig’ before using a bar stool on him and leaving him lying unconscious. 

Although police have not confirmed they are looking for Devine, a top cop gave an account of the attack when the Sunday World requested an official comment. 

PSNI Inspector Mark McHaffie said: “Police received a report that around 4.00p.m. (on Saturday, October 11) a man had entered the premises and punched a male customer then struck him with a bar stool, knocking him unconscious. 

“The injured man was taken to hospital and treated for injuries to his face and head.”

 Beaten unconcious: Hugh 'Applegoat' McCormick

The police statement said they are investigating the ‘assault at licensed premises in the Corporation Square area’ where Muldoon’s pub is situated. 

Inspector McHaffie said: “The suspect, who is described as being around 5ft.10ins. tall, of stocky build with short fair hair and wearing a g grey t-shirt and blue jeans, made off from the premises immediately after the attack.”

The description fits Devine, who asked to be interviewed about Robert McCartney’s murder and the impact it on him for an article published in September, 2011. 

The Sunday World can also reveal that this is not the first time ex-boxer Devine has handed out a beating to Hugh McCormick. 

The first time was over five years ago. That time it was in a city centre bar in Belfast. 

Again, as reported at the time in the Sunday World, Brendan Devine just walked in off the street and ‘laid into’ ‘Applegoat’. 

 

Yesterday, the police confirmed that they had still not made any arrest in the wake of the latest assault. 

There were reports that his victim had ended up in intensive care in hospital. Those were not confirmed, and the condition and whereabouts of Hugh McCormick are not known either. 

However, he and his brother Jim McCormick, 45, are both due in the dock at Belfast Crown Court on the 17th. of next month. 

They will stand trial then charged with the attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Joseph ‘Big Joe’ Henry at a house in the Market area of the city back on July 2, 2011.

Further details of that case cannot be reported at the moment for legal reasons. 

When Brendan Devine gave an interview to this newspaper in 2011 about the Robert McCartney murder, he told us: “I remember it all pretty clearly. It’s there for life.

“I don’t really remember his (the killer’s) face, but I do remember his evil grin, he had a grin on his face as he attacked us.”

He further said that the events of that blood-lust night and the subsequent trial – where no one was convicted of Robert McCartney murder – had left him ‘damaged’.

“I went off the rails, I was getting stoned and drinking too much,” he told us.

“Looking back now with a clear head I was trying to block it out.

“But the bottom line is that the people who killed him are still on the streets.”

The bottom line last night was that Brendan Devine was still on the streets – somewhere – in spite of being the chief suspect in the KO beating of Hugh ‘Applegoat’ McCormick in another savage battering.

Cathal McCarron

GAA gambling addict Cathal McCarron has been lined up for a sensational return to county football, we can reveal.

The Sunday World has learned McCarron, who was also exposed in a gay porn video earlier this year, has had meetings with the Tyrone County Board hierarchy including manager Mickey Harte.

And the troubled 26-year-old could be ready to line out for the ‘red hands’ in just a few months.

McCarron has had a nightmare past year after allegations emerged about him being caught red-handed in the home of a fellow GAA player while he was out playing in a match.

And things got much worse when it was revealed he took part in a gay porn movie in the UK which appeared on the internet.

The talented defender from Dromore quit his base in London after the porn story broke and returned back to Ireland where he underwent addiction therapy and counselling at a special rehab centre in Newry.

According to sources he’s worked extremely hard and has “earned the right to be welcomed back into the senior team fold,” said a source.

“It’s all very low key at the minute because it’s months before the season actually gets under way but he’s back in the fold.

 

“Cathal has done a lot of work since April when he came back from London and he’s ready to put his Tyrone shirt back on.

 

“He’s been invited to train with the senior players in pre-season training – mostly strength and conditioning work,” said the GAA source.

“Most of the sessions will be behind closed doors in the gym in Garvaghey. He’s too good a player to leave out and if he gets his off-field problems sorted he’ll be a great addition to Mickey Harte’s team.

Award

“There’s no doubt he was missed this summer – don’t forget he was nominated for an All-Star award the season before things went off the rails for him.”

Garvaghey is Tyrone’s new £5m training centre and it’s understood sessions have already begun there in preparation for next season.

It’s early days and Tyrone won’t play a competitive fixture until January in the Dr McKenna Cup.

It’s thought Mickey Harte could use him in that tournament – generally used to blood young talent – to integrate him back into the squad before the league season starts in February.

McCarron has become active again on his Facebook page and in August, after eight months of posting nothing at all, he changed his profile picture to the crest of Dromore.

A month later he changed it again to a photo containing a poignant message.

No doubt referring to his tough year the message stated: “Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow. We must fall in order to know. We must lose in order to gain. Because some lessons in life are best learned through pain.”

Sources in Tyrone say McCarron has been getting support behind the scenes from the wider GAA family.

“He’s made some bad mistakes but he’s entitled to another chance if he proves himself,” they said.

“Mickey has helped him before when his gambling problems got out of hand years ago and he’ll never turn his back on a player who has made a genuine attempt to sort his problems out.

“Cathal needs to play football as well because it’s the thing in life he does best. If he can focus on his football, it’s bound to help his recovery.

“He has plenty of support in Tyrone. When the porn stuff came out a Facebook page supporting him got thousands of people signed up to back him.

“There’s no doubt it’s going to be hard for him going back into the dressing room but I think he’ll have the full support of his team mates.”

The Tyrone GAA star graced Croke Park several times in 2013 as he helped Mickey Harte’s team reach the All-Ireland semi-final.

But after leaving Ireland to start afresh in England he transferred to lowly second division London side Round Towers.

Last year we revealed how he had left Ulster following an embarrassing incident where he was caught in a friend’s house without permission.

It was suspected he was there to find cash to feed his gambling habit but he was caught red-handed by a neighbour.

In February McCarron seemed to have his rehabilitation on track when he lined out for county side London in a match against Wicklow in a Division Four league game.

But his world came crashing down when he was exposed online for taking part in a hardcore gay porn movie on a pay-per-view sex channel.

The embarrassing aftermath left people concerned for the young footballer and senior players from the Tyrone county team travelled to London to bring him back to Ireland.

It was reported that before he left he apologised to his team mates at London Round Towers for his bizarre behaviour.

Kincora House

Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers has said that allegations of abuse at the Kincora Boys' Home in East Belfast will not be investigated as part of a UK-wide inquiry into child sex abuse.

In 1981, three senior care workers were jailed after abusing 11 boys at the home.

Due to an allegation that MI5 had been involved in covering up abuse at the home, last month Stormont ministers said that only a Westminster inquiry could adequately investigate the claims.

After Teresa May announced in July that there would be a UK-wide investigation into child abuse at Westminster, top Northern Ireland politicians and victims campaigners strongly argued that Kincora should be investigated as part of the inquiry.

However, on Tuesday Villiers said that the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hart was a more suitable option for looking into claims of abuse at the home. 

She said: "All right thinking people will find the offences committed at Kincora utterly abhorrent, and if there was any tolerance of such abuse by people in positions of authority that must also be utterly condemned.

 

"I believe that Sir Anthony's inquiry is the best placed body to do just that and it is already planning to look at allegations in respect of Kincora."

 Ulster Unionist Party leader, Mike Nesbitt, questioned the ability of the HIAI to call security forces staff to come forward as witnesses. 

 He said: "I acknowledge the Secretary of State is working with colleagues in Government to address that point, but until it is resolved satisfactorily, these proposals have a potentially fatal weakness. That would be a betrayal of the victims." 

Alliance MP, Naomi Long, said: "Whilst I welcome the news that the Government is willing to participate in the investigation into the goings-on at Kincora, it is disappointing they have not allowed the home to be part of the wider-ranging Home Office inquiry.

"Kincora is under the spotlight not just for allegations of abuse but also claims that security services participated in blackmail and cover-ups around it. While the Secretary of State is correct in saying the welfare of children is a devolved matter to Northern Ireland, the security services are not."

Former IRA boss Brian Gillen

ONH chief Carl Reilly

Padraig O Muirigh is a son of veteran IRA man 'Spike' Murray

Seanna Walsh was instrumental in IRA ceasefire

The UVF is actively targeting prominent republicans for assassination.

Far from taking a backward step the loyalist terror group continues to gather intelligence on potential targets.

It is currently recruiting new members across Northern Ireland and stockpiling a new arsenal of weapons.

For 20 years the UVF has been living a lie. In the two decades since the organisation declared a unilateral ceasefire it has continued on a ‘war footing’ with a number of high profile republicans in their sights.

This week the Sunday World was approached by a number of veteran UVF men disgusted at the direction the organisation has taken.

Their story makes a mockery of the sham peace and “hands across the barricades” approach of the UVF and PUP leadership.

They reveal in detail intelligence gathering operations which have targeted high profile republicans such as Seanna Walsh, and former Belfast Lord Mayor Tom Hartley. 

Oglaigh na hEireann chief Carl Reilly is a prime target as is Padraig O Muirigh, son of Sinn Fein negotiator Spike Murray.

Veteran republican and former IRA prisoner Seanna Walsh has been a strong supporter of the Sinn Fein peace strategy. hand-picked to deliver the IRA ceasefire in 1994, he remains an integral player in the republican movement.

Sean ‘Spike’ Murray a one time member of the IRA’s Northern Command is also regarded as a key player in the peace process – his son Padraig O Muirigh, a solicitor, is known for his cross community work.

 

The most baffling among the list of ‘targets’ is former Belfast Lord Major Tom Hartley. 

The UVF veterans we spoke to are disillusioned and furious that the organisation they believed they served in good faith has been dragged through the mud, and are disgusted that someone like Hartley should be included as a ‘soft target.’

OnH chief Reilly is a prime target. A UVF squad has been keeping tabs on the north Belfast man’s movements. 

But with the dissident republicans largely regarded as a spent force even he is regarded as a soft option.

The Sunday World understands the UVF has been gathering intelligence right up to the current day.

“Our war has run, it was over a long time ago and we bought into the future,” one man told us.

“We now have a dialogue with the republican community; most of us realise the problems of working class communities cross those divides.”

None of that has stopped the post-ceasefire UVF targeting the “old enemy”.

We also reveal an elaborate plan to assassinate one time IRA boss Brian Gillen as he went for a walk at the Bog Meadows on the outskirts of west Belfast.

Every single one of these operations was planned in the years after the UVF ceasefire.

Most startlingly it has been revealed that the UVF planned to bomb a pub just 30 minutes before the ceasefire.

A bomb was constructed and timed to go off half an hour before the UVF ceasefire was to come into place at midnight on October 13, 1994.

Had the no-warning attack on the west Belfast pub, known to be frequented by republican activists, gone ahead it would have caused multiple deaths.

Two carloads of men were in place to carry out the attack, primed and ready to go they were stood down minutes before they were to arm and plant their bomb. 

The Sunday World understands the bombing team was backed up by a carload of men armed with Sterling sub machine guns and Browning 9mm handguns.

The eve of ceasefire bomb plan was a deadly indication of how the UVF intended to snub any notion of a peaceful future. 

Since former jailhouse boss Gusty Spence announced their cessation the UVF has done little to convince anyone they are interested in peace.

The organisation has murdered 31 people – 29 of them from their own community – while on ceasefire.

The Sunday World can reveal that from the moment Spence issue an “abject and sincere” apology to all victims of loyalist violence the organisation he helped shape has embarked on a programme of rearmament.

It was fully 15 years after their ceasefire announcement before they declared they were ready to out their arms beyond use. In June 2009 General John de Chastelain of the International Commission for Decommissioning announced that the body has witnessed a “major decommissioning event” carried out by the UVF and its sister organisation the Red Hand Commando.

The quantity of material destroyed was not disclosed, but the IICD said it included arms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices – in reality it was a cosmetic exercise.

We have spoken to veteran UVF men who were present when the Shankill HQ ordered all Brigades to surrender their weapons at a central – and still secret – location.

The Sunday World now understands that rather than appearing to fulfill their promise of decommissioning it was nothing more than an exercise in housekeeping.

We have spoken to members who were present and who have described the process as a massive “cleaning operation.”

Every ounce of explosive, every heavy duty machine gun, assault rifle, handgun and round of ammunition was brought to a single location where every single item was examined.

Our sources have told us every weapon with a history was discarded, every heavy duty weapon, every rusty or defective round was thrown into the decommissioning pot – but everything else was put back in the dumps.

“In short, they used decommissioning. There was no decommissioning, all they did was get rid of the dirty guns and keep the clean ones,” said our source.

 

The UVF has a cache of guns that have never been fired.

 

“Still in their grease proof paper,” said our source.

On top of that that they have been busy in the arms buying market.

The UVF has a significant arms cache made up mostly of handguns which are more readily used for assasination bids, indicating a shift from their previous practice of using rifles and heavy duty machine guns.

Senior sources have also told us they have brought in Mac10 sub machine guns and US made M11 9mm pistols which are standard issue to the American Navy.

We have also learned the terror group has brought in a major consignment of Japanese-made imitation AK47s and a large quantity of, as yet unidentified, explosives.

This week PUP leader Billy Hutchinson, a convicted UVF double killer, admitted the paramilitary command structure remained in place. He likened the terror group to the British Army for being in a state of readiness.

richard.sullivan@sundayworld.com

A man has been charged with the attempted murder of a 2-year-old girl in Armagh.

The 24-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after police were called to a house at Charlemont Square East in the town of Bessbrook.

The incident happened at around 7.45pm.

The toddler suffered serious head injuries in the attack, and remains in a critical condition in hospital.

The accused will appear at Banbridge Magistrates Court, sitting in Newry, on Thursday. 

Callum Fitzpatrick

A County Down boy has won £390,000 playing the National Lottery.

Callum Fitzpatrick, 16, from Ballymartin, said that he "burst into tears" when he realised that he'd won.

He matched five numbers and the bonus ball in Saturday's draw, but wasn't able to celebrate with a glass of champagne, as he's not old enough to legally drink alcohol.

Callum is currently studying A-level maths at school, and the huge Manchester United fan says he'll spend some of his winnings on trips to see his favourite team play.

He said: "I realised I'd won that night when I was watching it live. I burst into tears, but not for long. 

 

"Then I phoned my dad on his mobile to break the news.

 

"He didn't believe me at first but then he realised I was telling the truth."

He added: 'I'll maybe buy a car, I'm learning to drive in January.

"And as a big Manchester United fan, I'm sure I'll go to Old Trafford a few times this season."

The PSNI have said they have discovered a significant amount of suspected cannabis plants at a house near Claudy, County Londonderry.

Neigbourhood Policing Officers found hundreds of the plants at around 7.30pm on Thursday evening.

A 58-year-old man has been arrested.

A man has died after being shot dead on the Falls Road on Friday.

Edward Gibson, 28 was attacked just after 5pm on Friday evening in an entry between Divis Street and Clonfadden Crescent.

Another 30-year-old man was stabbed in an incident which is believed to be related to the shooting.

Two men aged 30 and 33 and a 30-year-old woman have been arrested in connection with the incident. T

The SDLP's Tim Attwood said: "Whatever the circumstances there is no place for the use of guns or violence in our society.

"It is important that any witnesses come forward and give information to the PSNI."

Sinn Fein MLA Fra McCann said that a serious fight had taken place before the shooting.

He was later told that a man had been shot as a result of the fight.

Detective Chief Inspector Justyn Galloway of the PSNI said in a statement: "I appeal to anyone who was in Clonfaddan Crescent in the Divis area at around 5pm yesterday evening and to anyone who was in the Albert Street area round 4.30 pm and witnessed a related incident to contact detectives at Musgrave on the non emergency number 101 or alternatively contact the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."

Trevor Hayes

Sicko UVF wannabe Trevor Hayes has ‘confessed’ to 16 terrorist murders.

The 45-year-old with a lengthy history of violent crime, including pouring disinfectant into his ex-girlfriend’s eyes, claimed his first kill was when he was just 13 and from then on waged a one man murder spree.

The terror fantasist is demanding the spooks in MI5 release his ‘intelligence’ file under the 30 year rule so he can prove his ludicrous claims are true – even though he can’t remember the name of a single victim.

Hayes, who has convictions for a catalogue of vicious crimes, has instructed his Belfast solicitor to lodge an application for the information to be released despite the fact that in the unlikely event there is any truth in his claims, he faces a swift return to prison.

“That’s the chance I am willing to take,” he said.

 

“When MI5 release my file I will prove everything I have said is true. I want people to know what I did and if I have to go to jail then that’s what I am prepared to do.  

 

“If I got to jail it will only be for two years, I can handle that.” 

When questioned as to why he would admit to being a mass murderer, he said it was for the fame.

“I was a soldier of God so I don’t see the killings as murder and I have no regrets, my only regret is breaking my mother’s heart. 

“But I want the fame and the glory, I want people to know what I did, what I am capable of and what I did on my own. It was my mission, I didn’t work for anyone else.

“When the truth comes out I want a book written about me and maybe even a movie. 

“Like I said I don’t like being the forgotten man, I want people to know and remember what I have done,” the die-hard loyalist insisted.

When questioned as to why he could not remember a single name of his so called ‘kills’ he replied: “How would I know their names? It’s not as if I went up and asked them before doing what I did. That is why I have asked my solicitor to reveal the file they have on me.

“As far as I can remember it was 12 IRA, one prod, one catholic, one garda and one gypsy.”

The 45-year-old, originally from Broughshane but living in Ballymena, claims he was a member of the UVF from 10 years of age, after meeting loyalist godfather John ‘Bunter’ Graham through his father.

“I remember being asked when I was young what I wanted to be and saying ‘a UVF soldier’. I always wanted to fight for God and country and when I was 13 years old it started, with organising riots with fenians and it went on from there.

“I knew Bunter and all of them since I was a kid. They used to come down to Broughshane and drink in the same bar as my da, that’s how they got to know me. 

“They would still remember me now even though I haven’t seen them in years.”

But he has absolved his beloved UVF of any blame, claiming he acted as a lone wolf.

“The killings were just me, it was my own mission and it wasn’t sanctioned by the UVF. I just went out with a few close pals and picked targets. 

“I know you don’t believe me but I can and will prove this,” he insisted.

Hayes further claims that MI5 have told him they believe he is responsible for 17 deaths.

“I have met with MI5 for years now, from the very start, and they told me it was 17 murders I had been linked to.

“But it wasn’t, it was only 16 and their files on me will prove that, just as they will prove my association with the UVF.

“There is footage taken of me, tapes of me with them and I know MI5 have that because they told me years ago,” he insisted.

“I was never a tout though, I spoke regularly to MI5 but it about provos and that, never a loyalist. 

“It would break my heart to put any loyalist behind bars that’s why I never discussed anything like that.”

He also claimed that he has a member of the MI5 he could call at any time using the code word Cinderella.

“She wasn’t my handler as such, if I needed someone to speak to or was in trouble I just had to ring,” he continued with his bizarre, unsubstantiated claims.

Under legislation, files held by security services can be released after 30 years. Hayes says he was in the files from when he was a teen and he began to associate with members of the UVF.

Hayes received a seven and a half year sentence for the aggravated assault and burglary of two pensioners with links to well-known bookmakers in 2004. 

In 2013 he received a six month suspended sentence for pouring disinfectant into his ex girlfriend’s eyes two days after she split up with him. She required repeated hospital treatment

In 2004 his brother Adrian Hayes was jailed for 17 years for murdering a young woman by repeatedly beating her and gluing her lips together.

Julie Tennant, his 21-year-old victim and recovering drug addict, was picked up by 

Adrian Hayes in Ballymena town centre and brought to his house in 2002.

Hayes lured the woman who was in search of drugs, back to his house telling her he had a needle. 

He then punched her repeatedly, knocking her to the ground and glued her lips together to stifle her cries.

A neighbour who heard her moans described it as like the whimpering of an animal.

During a harrowing nine days of evidence the court was told how after murdering Miss Tennant Hayes wrapped her body up in a sheet and hid it in a garden shed before going off on a day-trip to Newcastle, Co Down, with his estranged wife.

When he returned he placed the body in the boot of his car and drove it to an isolated spot near the village of Broughshane where he buried it in a shallow grave.

He is still behind bars.

The Sunday World contacted Trevor Hayes’ solicitor, we had no reply before going to print last night.

A 15-year-old boy has suffered a fractured skull after being attacked by a brick-wielding mob in East Belfast.

The boy, who was reportedly visiting Northern Ireland from England to visit his ill grandmother, was outside a fast food shop when he was set upon in what is believed to have been a sectarian attack.

The attack came just a day after a police officer was injured while trying to control a 60-strong mob in the Castlereagh Street area. 

On Sunday night trouble erupted after groups of youths gathered on the Albertbridge Road, Castlereagh Street, the Woodstock Link and Templemore Avenue.

 

Police came under sustained attack with bottles and other missiles.

Petrol bombs were thrown on Templemore Avenue but failed to cause any damage.

Cheif Inspector David Moore said: "Police officers came under attack yet again last night and local homes have been damaged.

"We need to get away from disorder becoming a nightly event. People in this area, no matter what community they come from, do not want it.

"Police have been working closely with community representatives to find workable solutions and we will continue to do so."

Mairia Cahill has opened up a can of worms for Sinn Fein

The Sunday World today reveals a dossier of sex abuse dealt with ‘internally’ by the Provos – which permitted at least eight suspects to escape justice.

We can also reveal that Marty Morris, the IRA man at the centre of the Mairia Cahill sex abuse allegations is the chief suspect in the rape of another woman in west Belfast.

Last week we also named Morris as the alleged abuser of Mairia and two other members of the extended Cahill family. Now a fourth case has come to light.

We have also learned that another IRA volunteer, who was close to Marty Morris, was badly beaten and ordered out of the country after a republican kangaroo court found him guilty of raping a young woman from the St. James’ area of the city.

Marty Morris himself was a member of the IRA team which investigated allegations of rape against this man, and Morris was a member of a punishment squad which attacked him prior to him being forced out.

Both sex assaults have remained closely guarded secrets until this week when two former IRA men approached the Sunday World to reveal details of the cases.

The men say they came forward because they are disgusted at the way the republican movement handled these and other allegations of sexual abuse by IRA members.

In Lurgan alone THREE men accused of sex crimes including rape were ordered out of the town – and sent to the Republic to live.

“It was a disgrace,” said one of the former IRA men. “we weren’t capable of dealing with these things and probably the worst thing about it is that double standards were often applied. It was a case of different strokes for different folks.

 

“If the alleged perpetrator was well connected with people in the leadership, then they generally got a better deal and the issue was usually hushed up.”

And he added: “As Sinn Fein grew as a party, its reputation became sacrosanct. Anything that needed to be done to protect the party was done.”

We have been told that three years before Mairia Cahill claimed she was first attacked, a 35 year-old woman living in Ballymurphy alleged she was raped by Marty Morris. 

She was known to have had a drink problem brought on as a result of bringing up a family during the Troubles. 

At the time, Morris was a member of the IRA’s so-called Civil Administration Team (CAT), which dispensed justice in west Belfast, in the absence of a police force which was acceptable to the local community.

The new organisation – which replaced the traditional IRA auxiliaries – was the brainchild of Gerry Adams, and was headed up by veteran republican Frank Cahill, a brother of former IRA chief-of-staff Joe Cahill.

Frank Cahill famously gave the order to shoot Gerry Adams’ paedophile brother Liam, for a series of anti-social crimes including theft. 

The 35-year-old mother-of-two’s sons had fallen foul of local republicans who accused them of anti-social behaviour.

Morris, as a senior member of the CAT organisation was tasked by Frank Cahill with visiting the alleged rape victim’s home to discuss her boys’ behaviour. 

One of the men we spoke to claims he waited outside the house when Morris was inside speaking to her. 

And when Morris emerged a short time later, she appeared at the door and pointing to Morris, she screamed: “He’s just raped me!”

The former IRA volunteer insists that Morris turned around and said to the woman: “Sure no-one will believe you. You’re an alcoholic and your sons are hoods!”

We were told the 35-year-old woman was so traumatised by the attack, she eventually quit Belfast to start a new life in England

The ex-IRA men also told the Sunday World that around the same time, the other alleged rapist who was close to Marty Morris, was arrested by the west Belfast CAT team after the daughter of an IRA active service volunteer accused him of raping her.

The pretty dark-haired young woman was from the St James’ area of west Belfast. Her father had convictions for IRA bombing and had served a lengthy jail sentence.

The Provo rape suspect was questioned about the alleged sex attack and after being found guilty, he was subjected to a punishment beating at the hands of other IRA members, including Marty Morris. 

 The attack took place at the Giant’s Foot area of Beechmount, off the Falls Road. He was then dismissed from the IRA and ordered out of the country, never to return.

“The truth of the matter is that Marty Morris’s associate got off lightly, because of his connection to Marty. It was all swept under the carpet and never mentioned,” said the former IRA man. 

 

 “I know that her father was furious and he later left the IRA.” 

In another case which has been previously highlighted in this newspaper, we can reveal details of serious sex abuse allegations levelled against a former IRA prisoner linked to legendary provo JB O’Hagan.

O’Hagan was a founding member of the Provisionals when they were founded in 1970.

He gained notoriety on Halloween Night 1973, when he escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin along with IRA bosses Seamus Twomey and Kevin Mallon, when a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard.

The sex suspect linked to O’Hagan was also in the IRA and was later jailed for IRA activities. On his release he began working for Sinn Fein and he settled in west Belfast. 

Following a house party at the home of a female friend, he was accused by an 11-year-old child of rape. A second child also accused him of abuse.

An IRA investigation ordered him to move south of the border, although recent Sunday World inquiries revealed he is back living in Co. Armagh.

In another case, a man who regularly carried a flag in an IRA colour party in Derry was forced out of the city 

after several women made allegations of rape against him. 

 This Derry flag carrier was forced out after three women made rape allegations against him 

And in the early days of the Troubles, Terry Ginley, a republican sympathiser from Andersonstown, Belfast, was exiled on suspicion of being a sex pervert. He has since died.

The Sunday World first exposed the Provo sex abuse cover-up way back in January 1997.

Then we revealed that the IRA had given a convicted sex offender from Lurgan an option – get out of the country or get kneecapped. 

Sean McCaughey had already been convicted of a sex assault after a St Patrick’s Day party when a gang of masked IRA men 

called to his house accusing him of another sex crime.

The then 37-year-old, the brother of a well-known republican, fled south and went to live in Dundalk.

Sean McCaughey had already been convicted of a sex crime when he was ordered out of the country after another allegation

We also revealed at the time that another ex-Provo from the Co Armagh town, a convicted cop killer, had been banished from his home by an internal IRA inquiry team probing a sex assault on two women. And the summer before that, another Lurgan man, the son of well-known republican, was ordered out after it was alleged he had raped three women. 

At the time, an irate female source in the Co Armagh town told us: “The IRA has two standards – one for ordinary people and the other for relatives of its members.”

Earlier this week, the Irish News reported it had learned of at least six cases of republicans who had moved across the border following allegations of sex abuse. 

The report said that the PSNI is currently investigating allegations against the relative of a senior Sinn Fein member. 

It claimed that originally three victims made allegations of historical sex abuse.

Two of the victims had decided not to pursue the case while one has reported the allegations to police. 

It is understood the man under investigation is now living in Co. Donegal.

Colin 'Meerkat' Fulton

UVF ghouls have issued six death threats in three months to a teenager tasered in a sick punishment attack.

The Sunday World can reveal that loyalist bully boys have maintained a near 20 month campaign of intimidation and threats aimed at their teenage victim.

From the moment a UVF punishment squad under the command of disgraced former paramilitary boss Colin ‘Meerkat’ Fulton herded three youths into a room to be confronted by a mob armed with baseball bats and tasers they have continued to target the youngster.

The five man child-beating squad forced their victim to drop his trousers before a taser gun was used on his privates in a sick attack which left the whole community disgusted.

But his torture has continued. 

Last Monday the youngster, now 18, was informed by police that loyalist paramilitaries have ordered him out of south Belfast and if he does not leave immediately he will be shot.

It is the sixth time since August he has been handed a threat from the UVF.

Loyalist sources in the area say the target’s home has been consistently targeted over the last number of months with windows broken and paint bombs scarring the outside of the house.

We understand the young man has appealed to the Housing Executive for emergency accommodation but has so far been unsuccessful.

“The UVF has told this lad they intend to shoot him, it’s sick and most people in the organisation want nothing to do with it,” one veteran told us, he said UVF members are appalled and blamed south Belfast boss Eddie Rainey for allowing a “rabble” of drug users and trouble makers into their ranks.

Eddie 'Onions' Rainey 

He said some of those involved in the campaign of intimidation would have been one time associates of the 18-year-old.

Sources in the area say the target is ‘no angel’ but has never done anything more than smoke cannabis and “break a few windows.”

“He was a mouthpiece,” one teenage source told us, “he wasn’t slow to mouth off at people and that got him into a wee bit of trouble. Him and his mates would have smoked a bit of weed in the derelict houses in the Village.

 

“Maybe they [UVF] are after him because he wasn’t buying his gear from them.

 

“If anything all he needed was a slap in the mouth, to shut him up, but those bastards think they can just decide who lives or dies.”

The youth has been a virtual recluse since the taser attack in March last year.

“All the ones that were taken down that time got a slap in the mouth, but he was tasered, and he hasn’t been out of the house since it happened.”

It is understood on the rare occasion he ventures out of the family home it is to go and stay with friends in a different part of the city.

There is growing concern in the district for the safety of the wider family. The victim is the eldest in a big famiily, with the youngest only five years of age, and they have been left traumatised by the unrelenting attacks on their home.

“There’s barely a window left in the house, those kids have witnessed repeated attacks, and now they might be witness to their brother being shot.”

Our source said his mother is “at her wits end.”

“If they come looking for her son, she will stand in front of him, are they going to shoot through her? What sort of animals are they?”

The PSNI seems incapable of dealing with the ongoing threats and have simply been reduced to the role of messenger.

In March last year two teenage and one 12-year-old boys were were hauled in to confront a five man nutting squad.

The boys families had been approached amid allegations of anti-social behaviour and were ordered to bring the boys to a house in the district to “have a word about anti-social stuff.”

The famillies were given personal assurances by UVF goon Fulton that they would only be spoken to. Wearing his Progressive Unionist Party hat, Fulton pledged if they went with him they would be safe and would be allowed home after answering a few questions.

The boys were ordered into a room one by one. First in was a 12-year-old boy, confronted by five men he was, according to well-placed loyalist sources, “thrown about a bit.” The first 15-year-old was beaten and ordered home but it was the third victim, who suffered most at the hands of the UVF mob.

“He was beaten and then the sick f*****s pulled his trousers down and tasered his privates and all over his body.

“When they finished the wee lad had to walk home crying to his mum. His mum went mental as did everyone else.”

Residents in the Village were outraged at what happened.

Earlier this year a number of kids who had been subjected to punishment attacks were forced to flee their homes after the UVF demanded a slice of compensation payments they had received.

There are currently six teenagers forced to live outside Belfast because of threats from the UVF child abusers. They have all been warned they can come back only if they hand themselves over to a punishment squad.

The UVF’s ‘war’ on kids shows no sign of slowing down. The Sunday World is aware of a 16-year-old who was ordered to an upstairs room in a building on Donegall Pass where he was confronted by a number of men, including terror boss Rainey.

His ‘crime’ was not buying the cannabis he was using from them nor could he tell them where he was getting it. 

He was handed a brutal beating and kicked on to the street. The Sunday World understands the youngster was left so traumatised he left his home and is currently living with a relative in England where he is receiving counselling.

Jean McConville

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Jean McConville.

The mother of 10 was 37 years old when she was abducted by the IRA and murdered in 1972.

She became one of The Disappeared, who were abducted and secretly buried by the terrorist organisation.

The man is currently being questioned by police at the PSNI Serious Crime Branch in Dunmurry. 

A man has died in a car accident in Holywood, County Down.

The accident happened at around 10pm on Friday night when a Seat Ibiza collided with a lampost.

The man who died was in his 30s.

A passenger who was in the car, also in his 30s, was taken to hospital and his injuries are not life-threatening. 

Shots have been fired at a West Belfast house.

The attack happened at the home on Ard na Va Road at around 8pm on Monday night.

A window was damaged in the attack and there were no injuries reported. 

The PSNI have asked anyone with information to contact Woodbourne Police Station.

One of the boys wearing a balaclava at Carnagat Area Community Centre on Friday

A man dressed as a policeman and the boy wearing the balaclava while posing with fake guns

A row has erupted after photos of kids wearing balaclavas and posing with fake guns in Newry emerged.

The images, which were posted on a social media website, also show another young boy posing with the teenager.

A man dressed as a US policeman is also seen in the photos posing with a fake gun.

Young children can be seen in the background enjoying the party and looking on.

A man attended the party with his children, brought the images to the attention of the Sunday World, saying he found the photos "extremely concerning."

UUP MLA Danny Kennedy said: "I think the wider concern would be children being encouraged to partake in behaviour of this nature, dressing up in paraphernalia that they themselves do not fully understand."

 

He added: "It's a very negative influence on their young lives and very unhelpful on their personal development."

However, the community association has argued that the costumes were "taken out of context", 

A spokesperson for the group said: "We had no anti-social behaviour or bonfires in the area and we feel this is a reflection of the busy great week of activities that was provided by ourselves for the community.

"We have learned that someone has contacted the media in connection with a costume worn by a child at a party," they said.

 "We, the community association, are looking into the matter."

 SDLP MLA Dominic Bradley said: "Parents should exercise caution in their choice of costumes on such occasions. 

"The Carnagat Community Association are very active in the area and provide an excellent service to the community through the activities in the community house. 

 "My understanding is that there is nothing sinister involved in the activities on Halloween night."