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After being released from prison in March 1993, he investigated claims that criminals in the Republic were involved in money laundering with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). He survived an assassination attempt by UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade leader Billy Wright in June 1993.
Loyalist Billy “King Rat” Wright was identified to gardai as the gunmaned that tried to kill INLA boss Dominic McGlinchey – but was never charged, it has emerged.
“I identify this man as the man who tried to shoot Dominic,” a witness told gardai when he looked at a photograph of infamous killer Wright following the failed murder bid in Ardee, Co Louth at the height of the troubles.
Now, McGlinchey’s son Dominic Og is suing gardai over that investigation and the probe into his father’s murder in another part of Louth just under a year later.
After being released from prison in March 1993, he investigated claims that criminals in the Republic were involved in money laundering with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). He survived an assassination attempt by UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade leader Billy Wright in June 1993.
Loyalist Billy “King Rat” Wright was identified to gardai as the gunmaned that tried to kill INLA boss Dominic McGlinchey – but was never charged, it has emerged.
“I identify this man as the man who tried to shoot Dominic,” a witness told gardai when he looked at a photograph of infamous killer Wright following the failed murder bid in Ardee, Co Louth at the height of the troubles.
Now, McGlinchey’s son Dominic Og is suing gardai over that investigation and the probe into his father’s murder in another part of Louth just under a year later.
