Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenSandy Row, Belfast, Northern Ireland · 1974
Ann Ogilby, a 31-year-old Protestant single mother, was abducted and beaten to death on 24 July 1974 by members of the Sandy Row women's Ulster Defence Association (UDA) unit in Belfast, in a punishment killing following a paramilitary "kangaroo court." Eleven people were convicted in February 1975.
UNSOLVEDListenMagennis' Bar / Verner Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland · 2005
Robert McCartney, a 33-year-old father of two, was beaten and stabbed to death outside a Belfast bar on 30 January 2005 by members of the Provisional IRA. Despite an estimated seventy witnesses, a wall of silence and an alleged forensic cover-up followed, and the only man charged with murder, Terence Davison, was acquitted in 2008.
SOLVEDListenSt Brigid's Catholic Church, Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast · 1984
Mary Travers, a 22-year-old teacher, was shot dead in Belfast on 8 April 1984 by Provisional IRA gunmen who were attempting to assassinate her father, magistrate Thomas Travers, as the family left Sunday Mass.
UNSOLVEDListenShort Strand, Belfast, Northern Ireland · 1975
On 12 April 1975, loyalist paramilitaries threw a bomb into the Strand Bar in Belfast's Short Strand, killing six Catholic civilians and injuring about fifty others during the Troubles.
UNSOLVEDListenNew Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland · 1998
Andrew Kearney, a Belfast father of four, died on 19 July 1998 after being shot in a punishment attack carried out by members of the Provisional IRA at his New Lodge flat, in what is believed to have been the result of a personal grudge with a local IRA commander.
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