Loyalist Clifford McKeown released after sentence for Billy Wright

Loyalist Clifford McKeown released after sentence for Billy Wright ‘birthday gift’ taxi driver murder

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The last Troubles era prisoner has been released, but his victim’s family question if he is fit to return to society. Clifford McKeown was serving a minimum sentence of 24 years in Magilligan Prison for murdering taxi driver Michael McGoldrick in 1996. Mckeown shot the father-of-one as a twisted birthday gift to then Mid-Ulster UVF leader Billy Wright - ‘King Rat’. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Sunday World’s Steven Moore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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