Gun-attack survivor calls for independent inquiry
A CO Tyrone man who survived a loyalist gun attack 25 years ago has called for an independent inquiry into the activities of the UVF in mid-Ulster.
Stewartstown man Johnny Rush was shot in the leg in January 1989 by a loyalist hit squad using the same gun that killed Co Tyrone pensioner Roseann Mallon in 1994.
The 55-year-old believes the man who tried to kill him was also a member of the UDR - one of several former members of the disbanded British army regiment believed to be involved in the murder of several nationalists in mid-Ulster during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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