Loughinisland relatives seek collusion inquiry

The families of six men gunned down by loyalists 12 years ago as they watched a World Cup match in a bar today demanded a proper…

The families of six men gunned down by loyalists 12 years ago as they watched a World Cup match in a bar today demanded a proper investigation into allegations that the murderers colluded with members of the security forces in Northern Ireland.

Relatives of the six victims of the Loughinisland massacre, Co Down, in June 1994 said they were disturbed by recent claims that a police agent supplied the car used in the sectarian attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force.

Six innocent men who did not do anybody wrong in their lives were wiped off the face of the earth
Emma Rogan, daughter of Adrian, one of those killed in the attack on the Heights bar.

Emma Rogan, who was eight when her 34-year-old father Adrian, a scrap metal collector, was shot dead in the attack on the Heights bar, said: "We want to know how high does this collusion go.

"It's been hard. My mother and my family have been there for me but I feel cheated.

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"Six innocent men who did not do anybody wrong in their lives were wiped off the face of the earth because somebody said go and do it. We want to know why."

The victims of the attack, who were watching Jack Charlton's Ireland squad beat Italy in the 1994 USA World Cup when they were attacked, came from Loughinisland, Ballynahinch, Drumaness, and Downpatrick.

They were Adrian Rogan, Eamon Byrne (39), who was married with four children, his brother-in-law Patsy O'Hare(35), Dan McCreanor (59) a farmer, his uncle Barney Green (87), a retired pig farmer, and Malcolm Jenkinson (54), a building contractor who was married with three children.

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