Victim’s son angry at killer’s court deal

THE son of a workman who was killed with a fellow Catholic as they sat eating lunch in their car has said their loyalist killer turned supergrass “shouldn’t see daylight” after he admitted to 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.

Eamon Fox’s son, Ciaran, spoke out after former police informant Gary Haggerty and chief of the Ulster Volunteer Force in north Belfast pled guilty at the city’s crown court after a deal was struck after he gave evidence against terrorists.

He could be freed from protective custody within months of being sentenced as he has already served three years in custody, the equivalent of a six year prison sentence.

Mr Fox was gunned down with Gary Convie by Haggerty, 45, in Belfast in May 1994.

Haggerty also admitted five attempted murders, including against police officers; 23 counts of conspiracy to murder; directing terrorism; and membership of a proscribed organisation.

Outside court, Mr Fox broke down in tears as he said it had been hard watching him admit to murdering his father.

He added: “The police knew what was going to happen and took no action to stop it.

“Basically he was just a hitman, he killed at will.

“He’s done wrong, his hands are deep in blood along with people he’s going to expose and because of who he’s going to expose I think it’s not going to finish. That’s the hard part, just knowing he is going to walk a free man. It was water off a duck’s back. In an ideal world that man shouldn’t see daylight.”