THE outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) has issued a threat to the people who destroyed a plaque to its murdered leader Billy Wright on Mourneview estate in Lurgan recently, raising fears of a renewed loyalist feud in the mid-Ulster region.
In a statement issued to the media, the terror group warned that those who attacked the memorial would be made to account for their actions.
They also said those responsible must "contemplate their own fate and motives".
The statement fuels spe
culation of a renewed power struggle within loyalism in the area, with the LVF seen as weakened in mid-Ulster.
Some some people have gone as far as to claim the group started by Wright is "finished" in the area and that people on the Mourneview estate are fed up with its activities.
The threats issued on Tuesday would seem to suggest the loyalist group is still in existence.
The statement said: "In response to the recent wanton destruction of the memorial plaque to brigadier Billy Wright, the LVF state publicly that we will not sit idly by while those who pose under the flag of loyalism hold our people to ransom.
"Those who wrongly chose to desecrate the memory of our beloved brigadier Billy Wright are swift to forget the principles and ideology which led him to take a stand for the beliefs he ultimately gave his life for.
"Forget not the heroic stance taken by many who vanquished the murderous threat of violent republicanism in mid-Ulster."
