Paula McCartney, who was last night completing arrangements to leave her Short Strand home in Belfast, has insisted that the campaign to get justice for her murdered brother Robert will continue.
In the coming days Ms McCartney, her husband and five children will leave the Short Strand, where she lived for 40 years, to move to a new home in south Belfast. Robert's partner, Bridgeen Hagans, and two children will also leave the Short Strand in about a month.
IRA members stabbed Mr McCartney to death outside Magennis's bar in January in an unsanctioned attack. Two men have been charged in relation to his killing.
The McCartney family has lived in this area of east Belfast for five generations. Ms McCartney said she was very sad to be leaving her home, but felt for "quality of life" reasons she had no option but to move. "I want to stress that we are not moving because of the intimidation.
"However, we felt it was impossible to live in an area where every time we moved outside our front door, every time we went to the corner shops, we were meeting some of the people involved in Robert's murder."
Last night the family was busy packing. "We hope to have fully moved by this weekend or very early next week," said Ms McCartney.
