Message from Malachy McAllister
Posted by Jim on November 13, 2015
To Friends & Supporters,
I thought it was important for you to know the latest happenings in my case.
The attached correspondence with the C5 Legacy Investigation Branch (LIB) of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has taken a little while to sink in but it looks like there is an investigation underway by the LIB into the attempted assassination of my family and I some twenty-seven years ago.
Since my status does not afford me the ability to fly back to Belfast to answer questions it is anticipated that LIB will travel here to interview my oldest son Gary and myself. (Gary was 12 years old when he witnessed the loyalist shooting into the living room of our home and then turning the weapons up towards the bedrooms when they spotted him at the window.)
The letter was forwarded to me by my lawyer Niall Murphy in Belfast from the LIB inquiring into the attack on Oct’ 2nd 1988.
This is in response to a telephone conversation initiated by the LIB advising me that they had new information.
Needless to say I was shocked to receive a call from them at 5.30am however, I am happy to comply with any requests by LIB for information that may eventually lead to some form of justice and closure if there is such a thing…!
I have always made a point of saying how lucky my family was to escape serious injury and that it was a miracle that no one was struck by the more than 26 shots that was fired indiscriminately into our home but, that doesn’t mean that we didn’t suffer from the affects of the shooting.
We have no visible scares however, the scares we do have are the ones you can’t see the psychological ones we live with every day.
When I pause to contemplate the past and our present status especially, our immigration status and the adverse affect this continues to have on our lives as well as the stress that it puts on us… (The same stress that, I believe lead to the sudden illness and death of my wife Bernadette) I have difficulty accepting that we were lucky. You simply cannot forget the past when it is affecting your everyday life.
And I know this is the situation for many families whom have lost love ones to collusion in Northern Ireland… We just want to know the truth no matter how hard it will be to accept.
The Sir Desmond de Silva Report concluded that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) knew the attack was going to take place and that they (RUC) failed to act to prevent what could have been by all accounts a massacre of my family.
Instead of protecting my family…British Government Security Forces protected the; Red Hand Commando’s (RHC) the Loyalist group affiliated to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) who carried out the attack and made sure they escaped without apprehension.
They also made sure they protected there key British intelligence agent Brian Nelson whom provided the RHC with detailed information and photographs of me that reportedly came out off a British military installation dump...Futhermore he supplied the weapons used in the attack…a VZ58 automatic rifle was part of a haul of weapons that Nelson smuggled into Northern Ireland from South Africa that have been linked to nearly 100 loyalist murders.
Lastly, and what may be hard to believe Nelson actually handed over the keys of his own taxi cab to the RHC that was then used to carry out the gun attack and then reported to the RUC that he was hijacked.
The British Government have repeatedly lied and suppressed the truth about my case for 27 years..
They lied to the Canadian authorities and illegally participated in proceedings in an attempt to have me deported back to Belfast into the hands of the RUC Special Branch.
They sent RUC Special Branch officers over from Belfast to testify and lie under oath here in a United States Federal Court in front of Judge Henry Dogan who presided over our political asylum hearing in Newark NJ.
It is abundantly clear to me that in order to get any meaningful justice from the British Government my lawyers in Belfast will need all the help and support they can get.
To that end I will make any communication I have with the LIB of the PSNI public and will provide any and all information pertaining to our case available.
With regard to my present immigration status in the US the threat of deportation still shapes how I live my life. The latest news and information may not change my situation but, it validates the claims that we have made for all theses years. The real injustice here was when political asylum was taken from Bernadette and my children 29 days after it was granted by Judge Dogan..(one day short of the 30 day limit for appeals) Based on all the evidence that was presented by my lawyers then and what will be reviled shortly it should be given back…!
All said and done…my family and I are very happy and proud to be here in the US and I fully acknowledge that this would not have been possible but for all your support over the years and the support of our representatives and Irish American organizations especially the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America.
In the meantime I would like to reach out to our congressional leaders whom have supported me in the past to act immediately on my behalf by contacting the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting that they join a motion to have our case deferred back to the Board of Immigration appeals for a review of the evidence that was not available at the time of our political asylum hearing in Newark NJ
I would also like to request the DHS to defer action indefinitely on my case based on the information in the Sir Desmond de Silva Report and the latest inquiry into the attack by the C5 Legacy Investigation Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
End,
Malachy McAllister