Direct Action Against Drugs
Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers.[1] The organisation was allegedly a front name used by the Provisional IRA in claiming responsibility for the killings.[2]
List of suspected DAAD attacks 1995–2001
- December 1995
- Martin McCrory, a small-time drug dealer killed at his home in Turf Lodge, west Belfast.[3]
- Chris Johnston (aged 38) was killed at his home off Ormeau Road, south Belfast.[3]
- Francis Collins, a former member of the IRA, was killed at his chip shop in New Lodge, Belfast.[3]
- January 1996
- September 1996
- Séan (John) Devlin, killed in Friendly Street, Markets, south Belfast.[4]
- February 1998
- Brendan Campbell (aged 30), a convicted drug dealer, was shot dead outside a restaurant in south Belfast.[5]
- May 1999
- Brendan Joseph Fegan (aged 24), who had been described as one of Northern Ireland's main drug dealers, was shot 16 times by two gunmen in the Hermitage Bar, Newry.[6]
- June 1999
- April 2001
- Christopher O'Kane was gunned down as he returned to his security-heavy home in the Currynieran estate, Derry, on 21 April 2001.
See also
References
- ↑ DAAD profile, bbc.co.uk; accessed 10 February 2016.
- ↑ Irish Republican Army (IRA) profile, globalsecurity.org; accessed 10 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1995; accessed 8 November 2007.
- 1 2 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1996; accessed 8 November 2007.
- ↑ CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1998; accessed 8 November 2007.
- ↑ McKittrick David, (1999) Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh; accessed 8 November 2007.
- ↑ CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1999; accessed 8 November 2007.
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