A paedophile loyalist bandsman had the backing of some of the same Ballymena UDA rioters who smashed up migrants’ homes in response to an alleged sex attack on two girls.
Herbie Balmer’s case highlights the hypocrisy of many of those involved in the three nights of violence that resulted in dozens of innocent families fleeing the town after been targeted by a race-hate mob.
From top: Graham Bingham Jnr, who sexually assaulted two young women; paedophile Bradley McGarrell; and ex-soldier Jonny Falls, who sexually assaulted a sleeping woman
Rioters, including UDA members, claimed they were taking to the streets in response to Ballymena being overrun with foreign sex offenders.
But what they did not mention is how the terror gang backed paedophile Herbie Balmer, described by a judge as “evil and depraved”, after he was charged with serially abusing two schoolgirls.
Nor was there any appreciation of how the vast majority of people currently charged with sexual offences in Ballymena are local.
Eleven men and one woman are scheduled to appear in the town’s magistrates court over the coming week accused of sex offences ranging from rape to paedophilia, only one of whom is a foreign national.
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Ballymena predator Herbie Balmer was first arrested in 2021 when his two victims came forward to detail how, when schoolgirls, they were routinely sexually assaulted by him between 1983 and 1991.
The 61-year-old was convicted last year following a trial and sentenced to six and a half years behind bars.
During the period between his arrest and trial, lying Balmer, who was on court bail, denied any wrongdoing and enjoyed the support of UDA figures in Ballymena.
A banner-carrying loyalist, he was often seen at parades and in pubs at darts events while under investigation and even after being charged with 14 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency.
Balmer’s treatment by UDA members is in stark contrast to their behaviour earlier in the week when they joined a racist mob which torched immigrant homes after two Romanian teenagers were charged with sexually assaulting a Ballymena schoolgirl.
Troublemakers who set fire to a roundabout and blocked roads in Newtownabbey also have ties to the South East Antrim UDA.
The terror gang is notorious for protecting sex offenders, and in the last year alone has allowed three convicted perverts to live in its Rathcoole estate powerbase free of hassle.
They are Graham Bingham Jnr (32), who sexually assaulted two young women in a Belfast nightclub; former solider Jonny Falls (39), who sexually assaulted a sleeping woman; and paedophile Bradley McGarrell (21), who was jailed for a series of sex attacks on a vulnerable 13-year-old girl.
The South East Antrim UDA has also been accused of turning a blind eye to one of its senior members having sex with young women in return for cancelling drug debts.
The hypocrisy of the UDA driving innocent families from their homes in Ballymena while harbouring and supporting convicted sex offenders is not lost on loyalist sources, who say the double standard proves the riots were about race and not community safety.
by heresmewhaa
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Colour me surprised…
Looks like the stereotypical Loyalist nonce.
I’m sure the ‘concerned citizens’ will be on here soon to explain that this isn’t hypocritical in the slightest.
It’s funny cause it’s local….
Or something like that….
the anger i’ve felt over the last few days is to a level i’ve never felt before. any time i think loyalism can’t go any lower it blows my mind.
It seems like every day there is a news story about some local paedophile – why are there so many!?
Is it just that people get caught more now than they did before?
And why are there so many people who will defend this behaviour in people they know!? Like, your support for them could well put your own family members at risk. It boggles the mind.
Even if a person had those urges and even had absolutely zero empathy for your victims, why do they not care about their own lives and families lives? Why risk your career, marriage, home, freedom, safety? The punishments are potentially much, more worse than prison and that seems to be absolutely no deterrent at all.
Do they literally have no empathy or care about anyone or anything? How are you supposed to change the behaviour of a person like that?
Northern Ireland is a quasi failed state because these Fuckwits have impunity. If it was in Britain, they’d be behind bars.
What a headline 🤣
It’s always the ones you most expect.
It’s almost like the girl’s SA was merely an excuse to be racist thugs. /s
Well well well, the other shoe has finally dropped.
I wonder will the UDA rioters now scare themselves up into their attics?
When’s the riots?
The rot is so deep in these communities that facts will not convince them otherwise. They only understand force.
I have a queue as long as my arm of friends who’ve been raped over the years wondering where THEIR riot is. 🤷
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Same way the MP jeffery Donaldson…. No rioting over his Alleged sexual crimes . You can’t pick and choose! But are we supposed to be surprised by these sub humans ??
Just can’t make it up. We have recent race riots in which there are attempts to ethnically cleanse through a pogrom. Now a terrorist band member involved in these riots is a pedophile and has UDA backing.
There will be riots over this and Jeffrey, yes?
Legitimate concerns 🙄
Reddit will never stop failing to be a looked down on cave for people to cry with everyone joining in when they also get a chance to cry
They backed him because they’re all like he is, a pack of noncey hooers.
Ok wow I’m sure we will be burning down his house or something now? Or is that just for foreigners I forget?
Decent points made by Sam McBride, of all people, in the Telegraph about precisely these matters. Quotes Newton Emerson’s old point that ‘a loyalist riot was ‘an application for funding’,
Why are facts always so sectarian?
as long as he is white its alright according to ballymena
So you’re fine with loyalists and unionist representatives protecting and defending paedophile and rapists…
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