Four loyalists in Belfast court on terror charges

A brother of the late loyalist Mark "Swinger" Fulton has been charged with murder and directing the operations of the LVF.

A brother of the late loyalist Mark "Swinger" Fulton has been charged with murder and directing the operations of the LVF.

Mr William James Fulton appeared at Belfast Crown Court along with two sisters and their mother, who is accused of a separate murder charge and membership of the LVF.

In all, Mr Fulton (34) from Queens Walk in Portadown, whose brother Mark was found dead on June 10th last year in Magheraberry jail, denies a total of 64 charges.

They include aiding and abetting the murder of grandmother Mrs Elizabeth O'Neill, who died as the pipe-bomb thrown into the living room of her Portadown home in June 1999 exploded as she tried to remove it.

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Mr Fulton also denies eight other attempted murders, possessing guns and explosives, supplying both Class A and B drugs, membership of the LVF and directing the activities of the terror group between June 1997 and September 1999.

His co-accused Ms Muriel Gibson (53), with an address at Clos Trevithick, in Cambourne, Cornwall, is accused alone with the actual murder of Adrian Francis Lamph (29), shot dead in Portadown's Council Depot where he worked on April 21st, 1998.

She also denies ten other charges including possessing of guns and explosives, membership of the LVF and conspiring to cause explosions in the Republic between January and May 1997.

Her daughter Ms Rain Landry (27), of the same address, appeared on four charges of possessing explosives, causing an explosiuon, arson and throwing a petrol bomb,

Sister Ms Talutha Landry (25) of Penrose Park, in Portleven, Cornwall, denies two charges of possessing guns with intent and under suspicious circumstances.