The hypocrisy of republicans who jeer at murder victims
A letter from Rev Dr JE Hazlett Lynch:
They, rightly, criticised and condemned those loyalists who made a sick joke of Michaela McAreavey’s murder, yet it was their Co Tyrone supporters who jeered at us when we visited the site at Carnon Cross, Ardboe at which my brother, Kenneth, and his two RUC colleagues were brutally murdered on June 2 1977.
We are still awaiting justice for these murders.
Below is what I posted on June 1:
As a family, we visited the scene of the murders, and while we stood, thoughtfully, at the atrocity that had taken place, the women who lived in the neighbouring houses cheered and jeered and waved their arms high at dad and mum whose youngest son they had wiped out!
I cannot describe how indescribably hurtful that was to my parents, and also to me!
Judge for yourself whether this was an appalling act of emotional violence foisted on us!
JE Hazlett Lynch (Rev Dr), Magherafelt