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Irish hoodlum on his way to Torrevieja after press incident |
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A Belfast photographer had his car smashed up and a valuable camera stolen last week by young hoods linked to a notorious drug dealer.
Brazen thug Malcolm McKeown ordered his army of teenage thugs to steal the camera from snapper Ian Magill, so as to prevent his face being shown in Sunday Life.
Unemployed McKeown was photographed by the photographer as he stepped out of his powerful Sierra Cosworth at a Craigavon car park.
The newspaper that the photographer works for the Belfast Sunday Life has been investigating claims McKeown instigated a number of violent attacks on families living in the mid-Ulster area.
The thug - who is a brother of two convicted murderers - ran at our man and stole the keys to his car.
McKeown quickly made calls on his mobile phone. Moments later up to nine young hooligans, their faces covered, appeared around our photographer's vehicle.
A number then threw rocks through the car's rear windscreen as ringleader McKeown shouted several times: "Get the camera, get the camera."
Eventually, with McKeown inciting his band of teenage scumbags, they escaped with more than £5,000 of camera equipment. McKeown shouted after them: "Get rid of it."
Police are examining CCTV footage of the incident that was captured on nearby security cameras.
McKeown (39) is a notorious thug from the Craigavon area. His hobby is racing rally cars, and Sunday Life understands that he will be shortly jetting off for a two-week sunshine holiday in Spain.
He is a close associate of Spanish-based drug dealer, Gary 'Mammy's Boy' Marno, and is likely to meet up with the exiled hood during his holiday. Marno, who fled Ulster after ripping off the LVF, owns a villa in Torreveija.
McKeown himself is a known drug dealer and in 1999 survived a doorstep murder bid at the hands of the LVF. He was hit in the stomach with a shotgun blast, after being targeted at his Parkmore home.
He is believed to have fallen foul of the LVF in a row over the lucrative mid-Ulster drugs trade. Sources in that organisation believe McKeown provides information on loyalist paramilitaries to the security forces.
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