DOZENS of people gathered on Saturday to remember a Catholic teenager shot dead by loyalists 30 years ago.
Damien Walsh (17) was gunned down by Johnny Adair's notorious UDA/UFF ‘C Company' at the Dairy Farm shopping centre near Twinbrook on the outskirts of west Belfast on March 25 1993.
A Police Ombudsman report later said there were "significant investigative failures" and evidence of "collusive behaviours" by police.
Marie Anderson revealed that a surveillance operation on the UDA/UFF team responsible was lifted three days before the teenager was shot dead and later resumed.
The day before the teenager's murder the killer gang also shot dead Sinn Féin member Peter Gallagher, from Toome in Co Antrim, as he arrived for work close to the Grosvenor Road in Belfast.
He was also remembered at an event in west Belfast on Saturday.
The gun used to kill Mr Walsh was part a haul imported into the north by loyalists from South Africa in 1987 with the knowledge of British intelligence.
The teenager's mother Marian Walsh attended Saturday's event at Dairy Farm.
During an address Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice paid tribute to the campaigning mother.
"As a community, as a society, we owe Marian, and many mothers and relatives like her, a great deal of gratitude," he said.
"She and her family have conducted themselves with great dignity and forbearance in the face of such horror."
