Vincent McKenna attacks, threats and attempts to silence the truth
Up until the end of 1997 Vincent McKenna was a runner between PIRA Chief of Staff, Kevin McKenna and Martin McGuinness, PIRA Army Council. Vincent McKenna parted company with Sinn Fein/PIRA at the end of 1997, when Vincent McKenna became aware that The Sinn Fein/PIRA leadership were arming what would become known as The Real IRA. Vincent McKenna then went to war against Sinn Fein/PIRA for their duplicity.
Vincent McKenna tells Liam Clarke about Sinn Fein/PIRA policy of Ethnic Cleansing
The
following is a list of threats and attacks against Vincent McKenna and as listed to
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee by An RUC Deputy Chief Constable, Alan
Mc Quillan on the 13th December 2000.
Vincent McKenna only became aware of this
meeting between McQuillan and The NIAC on the 18th Sept 2018 at which point Vincent McKenna responded and his comments are in italics.
Vincent McKenna MSc
The RUC has also become aware of threats to or attacks on Mr
McKenna. These included:
1 April 1998—Alleged threat reported in
newspaper;
Any
threats against Vincent McKenna were either reported to Vincent McKenna by the RUC or they were confirmed
by the RUC.
18 July 1998—Allegedly attacked by six men at
Ormeau Road, Belfast. During the course of this attack McKenna alleged his life
was threatened. As a result of police inquiries, one person was later charged
with common assault and threats to kill. He was convicted in respect of the
common assault charge only, on 18th July 1998.
Mr
McQuillan is very disingenuous here “allegedly attacked” when in fact the
attack by a group of Sinn Fein/PIRA men lead by PIRA killer Sean Clinton was
caught on CCTV and RUC Officers actually arrived as the attack was taking
place.
One of the men pleaded guilty to assaulting Vincent McKenna and Vincent McKenna was happy for the
threat to kill to be taken into consideration as Vincent McKenna told the RUC that he simply
wanted to show the community that these bullies could be taken on. The RUC made
it clear to Vincent McKenna that they did not want to prosecute anyone from this group, and Vincent McKenna knows why that was.
27 July 1998—Alleged threat reported in
newspaper
Again,
any threats against Vincent McKenna were either reported to Vincent McKenna by the RUC or they were
confirmed by the RUC.
16 November 1998—Crude incendiary device
delivered to Mr McKenna at the FAIT office
20 March 1999—Mr McKenna found a trip wire
device at his home
Vincent McKenna, was
told that this was a viable device that contained explosives
3 September 1999—Mr McKenna received a hoax
device in the post
Vincent McKenna, was
told that this was a viable device and the army robot fired a shot into it as
it sat on Vincent McKenna's kitchen table
5 September 1999—Mr McKenna received two
threatening telephone calls to his home, stating "PIRA are going to kill
you".
In
fact, two RUC officers were in Vincent McKenna's house at the time of these calls being
received as The RUC had arrived at Vincent McKenna's house to inform him that he was going to be
killed by a loyalist paramilitary group. One of the RUC officers took the
second call and recognised the person making the threat as a member of Sinn
Fein/PIRA and the call was made from a public call box in a republican club in
north Belfast.
Mr
McQuillan fails to mention that in September 1999 the night before Vincent McKenna was to
speak on behalf of terrorist victims at an RUC Rally in The Ulster Hall - two
shots were fired at and penetrated the bullet proof glass at the front of Vincent McKenna's house – Vincent McKenna was in the kitchen area of that room making tea at the time of the
shooting and he was in the company of a well-respected business consultant Mr
David Hoey.
What
Deputy RUC Chief Constable, Mr Alan McQuillan fails to mention here is the fact
that Vincent McKenna had at this time been injured when he rescued a Protestant man from his
house on Agra Street, Belfast that had been petrol bombed by the UDA the man
was actually on fire when Vincent McKenna kicked in the door and dragged him to the street, Vincent McKenna had to go to the City Hospital and receive 16 stitches to the bottom of his foot as he had stood on the up-turned bottom of the broken bottle that had been used as
a petrol bomb, Vincent McKenna would receive compensation from The NIO due to the injury
inflicted.
Due to the help Vincent McKenna had given his Protestant neighbour his own house on
Agra Street would be subject to an attack by the UDA shortly afterwards, they
smashed the window of Vincent McKenna's baby daughter’s bedroom and threw a petrol drenched
torch threw that window into her cot. An SDLP councillor Mr Peter O’Reilly
would visit Vincent McKenna's house and help get Vincent McKenna rehoused to Haypark Avenue.
In July 2000, Mr McKenna wrote to the
Secretary of State, as a representative of the Northern Ireland Human Rights
Bureau. He complained of an alleged amnesty for wanted terrorists. NIO referred
the correspondence to the RUC, who confirmed that if wanted persons were
detected in this jurisdiction, they would be arrested.
History
now tells us that Vincent McKenna was in fact telling the truth about on-the-run-terrorists
such as Hyde Park bomber John Downey receiving 'comfort' letters and the RUC
were telling lies when they said they would arrest all on-the-run-terrorists. 238 Comfort Letters to date, 57 of those for Sinn Fein/PIRA Rapists.
The British Govt, the NIO and Sinn Fein/PIRA denied Comfort Letters
