Wright killer back in prison
Sunday, February 11, 2007
By Ciaran McGuigan
One of the killers of LVF leader Billy Wright is back behind bars and could be forced to serve the rest of his life sentence.
John Kennaway was locked up at Maghaberry Prison last week after an alleged bust up with cops.
It's understood that the convicted murderer - who along with Christopher 'Crip' McWilliams and John 'Sonny' Glennon gunned down the loyalist leader in the Maze in December 1997 - was pulled over by cops suspected of drink driving.
It's believed that he has since been accused of a raft of offences, including assaulting police and making threats to kill, arising out of the same incident.
He remains on remand at the Co Antrim jail, waiting to see if Secretary of State Peter Hain determines he has broken the conditions of his early release and suspends his licence.
A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Office said: "Consideration is being given to whether or not Mr Kennaway is considered to be in breach of the conditions of his early release.
"Where there is evidence that an individual has breached his licence conditions, the Secretary of State has indicated he will take action to suspend that licence."
It is believed that Peter Hain's office will examine the police file on Kennaway next week.
If the licence is suspended the matter is then in the hands of the Life Sentence Review Commissioners, who will then decide whether to revoke the licence.
Kennaway (44), from north Belfast, walked free from jail in October 2000, just two years after being handed a life sentence for the murder of LVF leader Wright.
INLA prisoners were among the last to be freed under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement after the Government recognised the terror group's ceasefire.
Kennaway had been serving a 25-year sentence for conspiring to murder Ulster Conservative Dr Lawrence Kennedy when he took part in the Wright murder in December 1997.
He was part of the INLA gang that held Dr Kennedy's family hostage at their Holywood home in November 1991.
Wait a minute, the British government is not in prison! These are the true murders of Billy Wright, the ongoing slow move on the inquiry will find nothing, as it will also be covered up by the government. No matter what happens the truth is known. As the Labour government slowly sells, it's most loyal and bravest sons, the men of Ulster down the river and into a undemocratic United Republican Ireland, they sent out a clear messege to all Loyalist leadership the day it sanctioned the murder inside one of it's prisons of Billy Wright.
'Do not conform to what we say, and the same will happen to you'
Yes they destroyed all possible Loyalist leadership, with the murder of Billy Wright. Labour, you have let down the people of Northern Ireland, part of your country. Part of the constitutial belief of the land, these people have backed the mainland through thick and thin, when ever the need for help has been the call they have been their, and now you are about to throw them to the hungry wolves. You disgust me.
Billy Wright, State Sanctioned, State Murdered. We deserve the truth.