SDLP member’s mother ‘threatened with death’ after complaining about loyalist flag

THE elderly mother of a nationalist politician was threatened with death when she complained about loyalists putting flags up outside her home, it was claimed yesterday.

SDLP politician Danny O’Connor, a member of the local District Policing Partnership in Larne, Co Antrim, said known UDA men had made the threats and that his mother was taken to hospital following the confrontation.

Mr O’Connor said: “Late on Monday evening a group of known UDA men hung an Ulster flag on a pole directly in front of my house.