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John Weir (loyalist)
John Oliver Weir (born 1950) is an Ulster loyalist born in the Republic of Ireland. He served as an officer in Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) Special Patrol Group (SPG) (an anti-terrorist unit), and was a volunteer in the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). As a member of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade led by Robin "the Jackal" Jackson, Weir was a part of the Glenanne gang, a group of loyalist extremists that carried out sectarian attacks mainly in the County Armagh area in the mid-1970s. Along with his RUC colleague Billy McCaughey, Weir was convicted of the 1977 sectarian killing of Catholic chemist William Strathern and sentenced to life imprisonment. Weir's affidavit which implicated Jackson, other members of the Glenanne gang, soldiers of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), and his colleagues in the RUC and SPG, in a series of sectarian attacks, including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, was published in the 2003 Barron Report, the findings of an official investigation into the 1974 car bombings commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron.
==Early life and the RUC==
Weir was born in 1950 in County Monaghan, Ireland and brought up in the Church of Ireland religion on an estate near Castleblaney, where his father was employed as a gamekeeper for an Anglo-Irish family. He was educated at The King's Hospital school Dublin.〔()〕 Over six feet tall, powerfully built, with blond hair and blue eyes, he had an imposing physical presence, which made him stand out in a crowd.〔("RUC men's secret war with the IRA". ''Sunday Times''. Liam Clarke. 7 March 1999. )〕 Initially he had considered joining the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland;〔 however, in keeping with his family's unionist political traditions, he opted to join Northern Ireland's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in March 1970 when he was 20 years of age. Upon his completion of training in Enniskillen Training Depot, he was first posted to the Strandtown RUC station in loyalist east Belfast. He was transferred to Armagh RUC station in 1972, and it was there on 1 August 1973 he was recruited into the Special Patrol Group (SPG), which was the RUC's "anti-terrorist" unit. It was made up entirely of Protestants.〔(The Barron Report (2003). p.142 )〕 His duties involved making early morning arrests, attending the scenes of bombings and shootings, and riot control.〔 He claimed the SPG officers were "very anti-republican, and sectarian attitudes were common". Weir and his colleagues routinely beat up Catholics suspected of harbouring republican sentiments.〔 The SPG saw themselves as being at war with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA); as such they considered the loyalist paramilitaries to be their allies and it was common practise to alert Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and UVF suspects before their homes were to be raided by the security forces. By the end of 1973, members of the SPG decided that they would have to "break the rules to curb the terrorists", by which they meant republican paramilitaries.〔
Following the killing of an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) officer in 1974 by the IRA, rumours spread that Weir had been involved in the UVF's retaliatory killing of prominent IRA man John Francis Green in County Monaghan. Just before Green's killing, Weir had discovered that Green had been using a safe house just over the border and tipped off his RUC Special Branch colleagues.〔 He was therefore sent for his own safety to the SPG unit in Castlereagh, Belfast on 25 January 1975, fifteen days after Green's shooting.〔("Seeing Red", John Weir's Affidavit, John Weir's Statement". 03.01.99 )〕 From Castlereagh, he travelled all over Belfast and had access to a large amount of intelligence. He regularly passed on information about suspected IRA members to loyalist paramilitaries.〔 On 1 September 1976 he was transferred to Omagh where he spent six weeks at Lisanelly British Army base. On 11 October 1976 he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and was again transferred, this time to Newry RUC station. He remained in Newry until November 1977, when he was sent to Newtownhamilton RUC station. His next posting was to Dunmurry, Belfast in April 1978 and his final posting was in Magherafelt, County Londonderry on 4 September 1978.
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