Loyalist paramilitaries launch jail separation campaign

LOYALIST paramilitaries yesterday launched a poster blitz across the North in a new bid to get their jailed comrades separated from republicans.

Thousands of Ulster Defence Association flyers demanding segregation for men locked up at the high-security Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, Co Antrim, were put up in towns and cities overnight, supporters claimed.

Tommy Kirkham, of the UDA-affiliated Ulster Political Research Group, said: “This is a campaign of non-violence aimed at achieving separation. When the government is building walls between communities on the outside, why should these men be forced to live together on the inside?”