A mum-of-two ordered out of her home by UDA thugs has admitted a string of offences, including threatening to kill a woman as well as damaging her home and car.
Hanna Marshall (32) pleaded guilty to making a death threat against Paige Hamilton, damaging Ms Hamilton’s Seat Leon car and her living room window during a row in June 2022. She also admitted damaging another car belonging to a Daryl Crawford.
Marshall was due for sentencing on the matters at Newtownards Magistrates Court on Wednesday but the hearing was adjourned after she entered guilty pleas to further offences on a separate indictment.
She had been due to contest a charge of shoplifting drinks and greeting cards to the value of £16.50 from Tesco in Springhill, Bangor, in June last year as well as a charge of drink-driving on the nearby Rathgael Road in August 2023.
Her solicitor entered guilty pleas to these charges in her absence and she is due for sentencing on all matters at Newtownards Magistrates Court this week.
Marshall, formerly of Fort Terrace, Bangor, Co Down, but now with an address at Ballyknocken Park, Lisburn, Co Antrim, hit the headlines earlier this year when a video of masked UDA men giving her 24 hours to leave Bangor was posted online.
In a series of clips uploaded to TikTok, Marshall claimed to have been persecuted by loyalist paramilitaries but defiantly insisted she would not be leaving her home despite the threats.
In one of the videos, masked men are seen at the front door of a house, making threats against her and the property.
One thug barks she has “24 hours to get out”, before adding: “You’ve got (her) here. (She) is not to be in north Down.
“We’ve been told to pass a message to you that you’ve got 24 hours to get out, and if you’re back in north Down, the house is getting it.”
Marshall added a caption to one of the videos alongside images of her two daughters reading: “Explain your actions to my children when they’re older. This was us, settled well and in a good place and you even took that away from me.”
The incident is understood to have taken place in the Rathgill estate on the outskirts of Bangor, where West Belfast UDA members control the drugs trade.
The criminal gang has a long-established unit in the city and Newtownards which refers to itself as the ‘North Down UDA’.
In videos posted online after the incident, Marshall said she would not be leaving.
She added: “I’ll stand tall. I’m not backing down, I’m staying home. You’ve ripped my family apart. That’s my everything. My kids, they’re my world, and see if I don’t have them, I have f*** all.
“I’m telling you this may get sorted. Leave me alone. I’m no drug dealer, I’m no paedo — put them out — (but) I’m angry, I’m hurt, I’m human.
“Be careful what you do to a good woman because you will have to deal with the b**** you created.
“I’ve been tortured for the last three years over nothing. (They) put a threat on me two years ago to leave my home.
“Now (they) have put another threat on me, but I’m not leaving Bangor?
“(They) have taken everything away from me. My kids won’t leave Bangor, so I’m not leaving Bangor.
“Torturing women and children… my children have been through enough. Leave me alone. This is what it looks like to be broken. You broke me.”
A loyalist source familiar with the situation told Sunday Life: “West Belfast UDA drug dealers were behind the threats. They’ve been targeting her for some time.
“In this day and age, people shouldn’t be forced from their homes, no matter what the circumstances.”
At the time the PSNI said no arrests were made.
by toptaggers
4 comments
I’m definitely missing the point but the hack of those photos. Your woman thinks her Sunday world article is a glamour shoot.
Absolute scote but because she’s shat out a few wee bastards she gets a free house, probably a car too.
When the photo is just what you were expecting. 🤷
Mum of two/three (quality journalism as usual there). Jesus.
I’d rather tackle a fish supper.
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