Mother of slain Belfast man appeals against retaliation

THE mother of the Catholic man shot dead by loyalists in north Belfast yesterday appealed for no retaliation and said she would pray for his killers.

Father-of-one Gerard Lawlor, 19, was walking home from a pub in Antrim Road when he was shot a number of times, a few hundred yards from his Whitewell Road home.

Sharon Lawlor appealed that no revenge should be taken for her son’s death.