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Rebecca Black & John-Paul Clark

Man finally learns UVF shot and killed dad 50 years after his death

A man has finally learned that loyalist paramilitaries from the UVF were responsible for his father's death 50 years ago.

Father of nine, John Crawford, was killed in January 1974 at the furniture workshop he owned in West Belfast and for the past five decades his had been searching for answers about who murdered him, reports Belfast Live.

The Official IRA were initially blamed but took no responsibility and false allegations were circulated that his father had been behind two murders.

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