Loyalists ‘hired by businessmen to gun down SF councillor’

BUSINESSMEN hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Féin councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed yesterday.

Loyalists ‘hired by businessmen to gun down SF councillor’

Eddie Fullerton was killed just a month after he was asked to name his price, according to his son Albert.

The family has launched a campaign in a bid to have the shooting included in a major Government-backed investigation into allegations of corruption by gardaí in Co Donegal, where he lived. Mr Fullerton, then aged 56, was a Sinn Féin councillor in Buncrana where the Ulster Freedom Fighters struck in May 1991.

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