Revealed | Willie Frazer tried to dupe UTV with dodgy dossier linking innocent Catholics to republican terrorists
Ivan Little reveals how loyalist tried to smear innocent brother of UVF victims
Ivan Little
Disgraced victims campaigner Willie Frazer tried to dupe UTV with a fake dossier linking innocent Catholics to republican terrorists.
The loyalist also gave DUP leader Ian Paisley the files that he used to make bogus claims under parliamentary privilege about the involvement in IRA terrorism of Eugene Reavey and 19 other men in south Armagh.
Mr Reavey’s three brothers — Anthony, John Martin and Brian — were killed in a loyalist gun attack at their family home in Whitecross in January 1976. The next day, republicans shot dead 10 Protestant workmen at Kingsmill.
But on January 27, 1999, Paisley said under parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons that a police dossier he had obtained linked the Reaveys’ brother Eugene to the Kingsmill massacre.
The then RUC Chief Constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, quickly dismissed the document as a forgery and said Eugene Reavey was an innocent man.
In Eugene Reavey’s new book, The Killing of the Reavey Brothers, he tells of his anger at the DUP leader’s allegations and how he challenged him to repeat them outside the House, where he would take legal action against him.
The North Antrim MP never retracted his allegations or apologised for them.
At the book launch, PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher also dismissed the allegations, saying: “Eugene Reavey is entirely innocent.”
Mr Reavey wrote that he believed Frazer “persuaded” Paisley to make his statement at Westminster and said that then deputy DUP leader Peter Robinson once appeared to agree that the founder of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives was the source of the dossier.
I can now reveal that several days before Paisley’s statement in Westminster, Frazer tried to get UTV to broadcast the claims in the document which he presented to me as a security forces’ intelligence dossier.
However, as well as the obvious libel considerations, the files appeared to have a number of inconsistencies and UTV didn’t report on any of its claims.
I don’t know if Frazer had been given the intel by rogue police officers or soldiers, but he was at pains to insist that it was genuine and dismissed suggestions it was a forged paper that he had a hand in producing.
After UTV’s refusal to broadcast its contents, Frazer hinted that he would then let Paisley see the files. On January 26, I approached the DUP about whether or not their leader was going, as I suspected, to use parliamentary privilege to reveal names in Westminster.
My diary entry for the day said that the party “gave me the runaround”. But the next day Paisley was indeed on his feet in the House of Commons to read chapter and verse from the files, which caused widespread controversy.
In his book, Eugene Reavey refers to reports that Frazer boasted that he had driven the getaway car for the killers after the Reavey slayings.
He wrote that he didn’t know whether to believe Frazer “because Willie was a notorious liar and fantasist and was only 15” at the time of the Reavey killings. A Frazer family statement later refuted the claim that he had been involved in the murders.
Eugene Reavey’s book also referred to a BBC documentary in which Frazer admitted not long before his death in June 2019 that he had supplied guns to loyalists which had been used in multiple murders across Northern Ireland.
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Isn’t there a memorial to IRA victims somewhere that used to get regularly vandalised until Willie popped his clogs
Gun runner Willie Frazer? I remember when he called a primary school an IRA training camp for flying an Irish flag, it then turned out to be an Italian flag. He was one bitter bitter bastard.
Glanann gang ?? Scumbag ! Ruc upto their neck in it also !
The world’s a better place without this fucker.
My favourite Willie antics was the time he tried to say republicans burnt his car out….despite it clearly having been him
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Frazer was, for reasons that escape me, always portrayed as this pillar of the community, someone who cared about getting justice for people who had been murdered. In reality he was just another loyalist thug
Ah well, where’s Willie at now? Just copping it sweet?
What did ye say ye slabber?
The NI politics/Troubles/current affairs journalist corps have a lot to answer over the soapbox they gave that horrible cunt Frazer, and for a thousand other things too. Everyone knows that it was the remnants of the Glenanne Gang which started the PUL Victims Industry, and the media churn out their twisted bitter narrative on a daily basis without question.
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This guy always wondered why nobody takes him seriously. Willie Frazer was also a joke of a man too
No mention in the article of the Ulster Resistance. The loyalist terrorist murder machine founded by Ian Paisley, Sammy Wilson, Nigel Dodds, Jim Allister and many other senior DUP minister of that era. Emma Little Pengelly’s father Noel Little was a key member of the Ulster Resistance; a gun-runner who was arrested in Paris along with several other members of Paisley’s Free Presbyterian Church.
RUC records from the time name Willie Frazer as a member of the Ulster Resistance – someone who was transporting guns from DUP arms dumps to the UDA and UVF. Johnny Adair also named Willie Frazer as a member of Ulster Resistance who was supplying his group with weapons.
In Eugene Reavey’s book, he names Albert Frazer (Willie’s father) as a member of the Glenanne Gang death squad which murdered three members of his family, this was corroborated by the police ombudsman.
Arlene Foster read a eulogy at Willie Frazer’s funeral, a funeral which was attended by virtually every prominent Unionist politician. Foster had previously been Frazer’s solicitor. Frazer had driven a gang of known loyalist terrorists to David Trimble’s house to “discuss” the Good Friday Agreement with him.
Ian Paisley, the loyalist terrorist DUP First Minister used Parliamentary Privilege to spread lies about the victims of loyalist / Security Forces murder gangs based on “intel” supplied by Willie Fraser.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson lied under oath to focus attention for the killing of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen on to non existent Garda collusion . His lies would spawn the Smithwick Inquiry. An Inquiry which would be influenced by “intel” which was supplied by Willie Frazer.
The TL;DR version is that political Unionism eulogised someone they knew to be a loyalist terrorist and member of a deadly murder gang which comprised of RUC / British Army and members of the UVF / UDA.
I’d expect nothing less from that cunt
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Imagine that, cunt who hates Catholics tries to incriminate Catholics. Wow.
Sometimes I forget just how much of a cunt that lad was. It’s good to be reminded.
I remember where few occasions when he had a photo OP and there was a dog in the photo taking a shit. 😂 Very apt for that cretin.
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