The family of a Derry man shot dead by a republican paramilitary group last year have offered their sympathy and solidarity to the family of Barry McCrory who was murdered in the city centre on Thursday morning last.
Andrew Allen.
Mr McCrory (35) was killed by a lone gunman in a flat in Shipquay Street. The suspected killer has been named by police as 58-year-old Kieran McLaughlin from the Galliagh area of the city.
The killing has been widely condemned by politicians including British Prime Minister David Cameron who said the killer would be “hunted down, prosecuted and convicted.”
Mr McCrory’s parents, Anne and Danny, and nine-year-old son Shea attended a rally in Guildhall Square held yesterday morning in protest at the killing during which a two minutes silence was held in his memory.
Among the several hundred people in attendance were family members of Andrew Allen, the 24-year-old man from the Top of the Hill area in Derry’s Waterside who was shot dead in February last year in a house he had been renting at Links View Park, Lisfannon close to Buncrana in Inishowen.
A group calling itself Republican Action Against Drugs said they murdered the father of two because he was a “death dealer” and “career criminal.”
Speaking earlier today, Mr Allen’s nephew, William, said the family’s thoughts were with the McCrory family who, he said “have so much agony in front of them.”
Mr Allen said Thursday’s killing had brought back “awful memories” from his nephew’s murder to his parents, sisters, brothers, partner, rest of family and friends.
He added: “Nobody who has not experienced it can know the deep hurt and devastation these acts leave behind, the awful pain it brings into people’s lives that will never go away.”
Mr Allen concluded “All our thoughts are with the McCrory family who have so much agony in front of them.”
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