Tommy Kirkham
Two young children have been left traumatised after witnessing a UDA gun attack.
The lads, aged 10 and 11, are said to be in shock after masked man strafed a car with gunfire in Newtownabbey.
Said one source: “The wee boys, aged just ten and 11, were out playing in the street when the gun attack happened.
“Masked men got out of a car. They fired shots into a car parked outside a house.
“The so-called ‘motive’ for the attack was that the owner had spoken out about the SEA Brigade thugs dealing drugs in the area.
“The two schoolboys are now almost traumatised. They fear that the gunmen will come back for them – even though they couldn’t identify the gunmen anyway, as they were wearing balaclavas.
“But you can imagine the horrific effect seeing guns fired in the open, in the street, would have on two innocent youngsters any way.”
Another source who came to this newspaper said: “These hoods and criminals masquerading under the name of the UDA now think they are ‘The Untouchables’.
“And certainly, if Tommy Kirkham is in charge of a so-called ‘peace project’ pulling in hundreds of thousands of pounds from European peace initiative funds, he’s saying nothing.
“He hasn’t spoken out about this latest gun attack. And it was also noticeable that he kept his gob tightly shut during the mob attacks in Larne and Carrick a few weeks back.
“So much for transforming criminals ‘from conflict to hope’ – and us, the taxpayer, lining the likes of Kirkham’s pocket allegedly do so.”
It is understood the car riddled with bullets belonged to a local resident in the Lacken area of Newtownabbey.
The attack was allegedly carried out ‘in revenge’ for the concerned resident speaking out about the SEA Brigade’s drugs-running rackets.
Local sources say the resident has since had to abandon their home and leave the area.
The rebel UDA mob fronted up by their mouthpiece ex-politician, Tommy ‘Millions’ Kirkham, is on the rampage again with the gun attack this week.
And the gunmen from the renegade South East Antrim UDA Brigade are doing it at YOUR expense – again.
Kirkham, who attempt to present a respectable front, even welcoming then Irish President Mary McAleese to The People’s Museum Fairhill House in the Glencairn area of North Belfast in 2003.
The Sunday World has repeatedly exposed how a paramilitary-related quango run by Kirkham has raked in over £626,000 of taxpayers’ money.
It has been handed to the South East Antrim Researching from Conflict to Hope, or SEARCH for short.
It’s fronted up by ‘Millions’ Kirkham, a former deputy mayor of Newtownabbey Council before he was unceremoniously dumped by the electorate.
Kirkham is the so-called Project Co-ordinator of the quango, and pockets a salary of almost thirty grand a year.
But it is widely known and accepted in the South East Antrim area – and Kirkham admitted it on an official website – that SEARCH is directly linked to the rebel South East Antrim Brigade.
Top cops openly pinned the blame for the mob violence and terror wreaked in Larne and Carrick in April on the Gary Fisher-led SEA Brigade.