Family, friends and neighbours will gather this weekend to remember three people murdered in a gun and bomb attack on a north Belfast garage 50 years ago.
The memorial service on the Falls Road is being organised by the family of 16-year-old Anthony McGrady, killed alongside brothers Ronnie (55) and Sean McDonald (50).
They were killed during a sectarian attack by the UVF on the Cliftonville Road garage on August 25, 1973.
Anthony was from the St James’s area of west Belfast.
A social media post by Anthony’s brother Liam and family wanted to “let the old neighbours of St James’s know” about the service to be held at St John’s on the Falls Road at 6pm on Saturday.
Fr Martin Magill will officiate.
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One man was convicted in connection with the murder.
William Crockett of Mayo Street, off the Shankill, was convicted of assisting two others and was sentenced to seven years in 1974.
He was released in 1977.
Liam McGrady told Belfast Media earlier this year that his mother, Anna, confronted the 28-year-old Crockett in the court room following his conviction, waving Anthony’s memorial card in his face.
"You have a conscience and I hope that when your children are 16-years-of-age they don’t get the death that my child got,” she told the father-of-two.
Mr McGrady also described how the family felt about the sentence for the “assassination of these three people – two innocent men and a 16-year-old boy. This leaves a lot to be said about our judicial system and how biased it was during our troubled times”.
“Here was a 28-year-old loyalist UVF killer who played an active part in three sectarian killings only getting a seven-year sentence,” Mr McGrady said.
"He was released in 1977, less than a year-and-a-half for each killing."
“It is a disgrace what my parents, William and Anna, and the wives and families of the two McDonald brothers must have felt. They got a life sentence, as they had to live the rest of their lives on this earth knowing the horrific deaths of Anthony, Ronnie and Sean.”
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Following his 1977 release, the McGrady family learned Crocket had managed to secure a job at Harland and Wolff.
They heard nothing more until 1990 when alerted to a newspaper report about a death in Belgium.
Crockett was killed following an explosion and at an industrial plant.
His badly burnt body was in a hut destroyed in the fire.
The two individuals directly involved in the murders have never been caught. Crockett claimed he did not know their names.
