`False memory' of murders

A loyalist who confessed to four sectarian murders was living in a dream world, Belfast Appeal Court was told yesterday. A lawyer for Gary Quinn (35), from Drummard Crescent, Lisburn, said he made confessions while suffering from false memory syndrome. "He suffered a devastating brain injury when he was shot by a UDR soldier in 1990," said Mr Tony Cinnamond, QC, in opening Quinn's appeal against his conviction for murdering Mr Loughlin Maginn, Mr Patrick Feeney and Mr David Dornan in 1989 and Mr Hugh Delaney in 1988.