Wife speaks out over John Toland's 1976 murder by UDA
A WOMAN whose husband was shot dead by the UDA in his own pub has said she would not have survived without her children.
Marie Newton (Toland) was 35 when her first husband and father to their seven young children, John Toland, was gunned down in the Happy Landing in Eglinton in Co Derry in November 1976.
The gunmen later wrongly claimed he was an informant for the IRA.
She said: "My children have never been back to the pub, but they are thinking about going there together at some stage, just once. Maybe they could go into the Happy Landing.
"They could have a drink [...]
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