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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.
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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.