A 17-YEAR-OLD US girl who spent weeks looking for her missing dog was horrified when she unwrapped a box left on her doorstep and found the animal’s severed head inside.

The murder of a top loyalist paramilitary was as barbaric as anything inflicted by the notorious Shankill Butchers gang 30 years ago, a Belfast inquest heard today.

THE Ulster Defence Association was formally accused yesterday of gunning down one of its former brigadiers, Jim Gray.

The Ulster Defence Association was formally accused today of gunning down one of its former brigadiers, Jim Gray.

The North’s two largest loyalist paramilitary groups were tonight urged to declare a definitive end to criminal and paramilitary activity.

A LOYALIST paramilitary feud which claimed the lives of four people in Belfast this summer could erupt again, the IMC report warned.

A loyalist paramilitary feud which claimed the lives of four people in Belfast this summer could erupt again, a report monitoring terror groups warned today.

Loyalists who assassinated ousted paramilitary chief Jim Gray could have wounded children playing in the street, police said today.

MURDERED ex-paramilitary boss Jim Gray was buried in total ignominy yesterday.

Murdered ex-paramilitary boss Jim Gray was buried in total ignominy today.

The funeral of former UDA 'brigadier' Jim Gray is taking place in east Belfast this morning.

A fourth person questioned by police about the murder of former Ulster Defence Association chief Jim Gray was tonight released without charge.

Three people being questioned by police about the murder of former loyalist paramilitary leader Jim Gray were today released without charge.

Two women questioned about the murder of former loyalist terror boss Jim Gray have been released without charge.

Police in the North are continuing to question six people this morning in connection with the murder of the notorious loyalist paramilitary Jim Gray.

MURDERED ex-loyalist terror boss Jim Gray was shot five times in the back after being tricked into dropping his guard, it emerged last night.

Although Jim Gray, former head of the Ulster Defence Association, was facing charges of money laundering, his murder should be unreservedly deplored.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams denied his party had any involvement in the murder of Dublin man Joseph Rafferty who was shot dead last April.

Two women were tonight being questioned by detectives hunting the killers of deposed loyalist terror boss Jim Gray.

Six people were being questioned today about the murder of ousted loyalist terror boss Jim Gray.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today dismissed as “nonsense” claims that the IRA has held back about 300 guns despite its commitment to a full de-commissioning of weapons.

Seven people were arrested today by detectives hunting the killers of former UDA chief Jim Gray, police confirmed.

Politicians from across the sectarian divide in the North have condemned the murder of former UDA ‘brigadier’ Jim Gray in east Belfast last night.

Jim Gray was living on borrowed time ever since the Ulster Defence Association ruthlessly kicked him out to fend for himself.

Former Ulster Defence Association brigadier Jim Gray tonight joined a grim catalogue of leading loyalist paramilitary figures to be gunned down on the streets of Northern Ireland.

TOP loyalist Jim Gray was shot dead in Belfast last night.

Top loyalist Jim Gray was shot dead in Belfast tonight.

The SDLP has questioned a judge's decision to grant bail to a leading UDA man facing serious money-laundering charges.

Two men were arrested today for questioning about the murder of a loyalist who was shot dead in Belfast last week.

Fears of a new shooting war between rival loyalist gangs on the streets of Belfast at the height of the Protestant marching season intensified tonight after the murder of a man in the east of the city.

The name of the man shot dead in east Belfast this morning recently appeared in loyalist graffiti on the Shankill Road.

A man has been killed in a shooting at the site of a former pub once owned by a loyalist paramilitary leader in east Belfast.

Ulster Unionist Party offices were raided today as part of a continuing police investigation into money laundering.

A leading Northern Ireland estate agent was accused of money laundering today.

The North’s Assets Recovery Agency is seeking a High Court order freezing the assets of leading loyalist Jim Gray.

Ousted UDA chief Jim Gray was remanded in custody today on charges of money laundering.

A top loyalist was questioned by police in the North tonight.

ULSTER Defence Association leader Jim Gray has been ousted by the paramilitary organisation, it was revealed yesterday.

Ulster Defence Association leader Jim Gray has been ousted by the paramilitary organisation, it was revealed today.

A police chief has been ordered to make a £1,500 (€2,143) payout to a top loyalist paramilitary in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

Two men were being questioned today about the murder of a loyalist feud victim.

A BELFAST judge yesterday refused to overturn the prison sentence of Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair, Northern Ireland’s notorious Loyalist leader.

GANGLAND battles for supremacy among rival terror organisations who control Protestant areas of the city have left 14 men dead in the last two-and-a-half years.

Thousands of loyalists were expected to attend today’s funeral of murdered UDA leader John Gregg.