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<\/p>\nThe 47-year-old threatened the veteran UVF boss and others in a jaw-dropping rant \u2013 calling them \u201ctraitors\u201d and warning them \u201cwe are coming for you\u201d.<\/p>\n
And during the astonishing, presumably drunken, rant the dope dealer also challenged the UVF\u2019s second-in-command Harry Stockman \u2013 who becomes an OAP in a few months, to a similar punch-up.<\/p>\n
Indeed Stockman \u2013 nicknamed \u2018Harmless Harry\u2019 is hardly much of a target either given he suffers from long-term injuries after he was stabbed more than ten times in an attempted murder bid 14 years ago.<\/p>\n
McConnell\u2019s outburst came in a bad week for the East Belfast UVF after another leading ex-boss, Derek \u2018Banic\u2019 Lammey, was remanded into custody on Wednesday for his Pitt Park intimidation and was told he face between two and three years behind bars when he\u2019s sentenced this week.<\/p>\n
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Former East Belfast boss David McConnell, 43, was arrested this week after breaking into a womans house in East Belfast. The woman woke to find McConnell in her bedroom and then called police<\/p>\n
News in 90 Seconds, Wednesday, October 22 <\/p>\n
In a Facebook post last week riddled with grammatical mistakes, McConnell \u2013 who once had a rape charge dropped after the alleged victim took her own life \u2013 appeared to announce he was going to war with the UVF hierarchy on the Shankill.<\/p>\n
The Sunday World understands McConnell \u2013 who flits between Scotland and east Belfast these days \u2013 lost the plot after the UVF moved on the leadership in north Belfast and Monkstown.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood a number of senior UVF figures in that battalion have been stood down against their wishes \u2013 in much the same way the UVF dealt with Dee McConnell and his East Belfast leadership pals.<\/p>\n
An enraged McConnell, either boozed-up or high on his own supply, took to social media to read the riot act to the UVF top brass.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m no big man but I\u2019ll tell anyone that wants to listen,\u201d he started off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been a loyalist all my life, and would give my life for anyone that lives underneath the banner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve let it go this far and said nothing but for me to let go it flys in the face of everything that went before me this can\u2019t be let go on.<\/p>\n
\u201cLoyalist that want to live over this farce, to be under the banner of touts and state agents & informants you are nothing but sh**e on my shoe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can call those state informers to stand down now, if not your f***ing traitors, 1st it East Belfast now it\u2019s more legends from Monkstown.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone involved in the destruction of loyalism, mark my words we are coming for you!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t be mastered by the no sell out bastards!<\/p>\n
\u201cBunter and Stocky if you had any balls you will come fight me man on man. Two complete plants wood, you have divided loyalism for your own ends for to long sell outs of Ulster.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
A source told the Sunday World McConnell\u2019s \u2018threat\u2019 hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDee lost the plot big time and the Shankill saw it all,\u201d said the source. \u201cWhat was he thinking? Challenging an 80-year-old man with health issues to a punch-up? It just so happens that 80-year-old is the boss of the UVF.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd threatening Harry Stockman is just as bad \u2013 he very nearly died when he was stabbed repeatedly by David Madine.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needed emergency surgery to save his life plus he\u2019s 64 years old now so hardly makes you a big man by offering him a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others who have had the misfortune to cross paths with McConnell have said they couldn\u2019t believe what they were reading.<\/p>\n
\u201cMcConnell must have been off his face when he wrote all that about being a loyalist,\u201d said one ex-UVF man.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe talks about the destruction of loyalism being the UVF leadership\u2019s fault but maybe he should look at his own behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a convicted drug dealer, he was once charged with raping a girl who later took her own life and one of his best mates is actual convicted rapist Gerry Verner.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also got done for harassing a woman who said he broke into her house late at night. What kind of loyalist is he?\u201d<\/p>\n
McConnell was once one of the leading commanders in the East Belfast UVF and was close to east Belfast loyalist Stephen Matthews.<\/p>\n
But his recent rant is not the first time he\u2019s gone berserk on social media.<\/p>\n
In 2019 McConnell went bonkers at the PSNI after they raided his house and seized a number of items.<\/p>\n
During a social media rant about the raid he even appeared to threaten a top cop who, at the time, was heading up the Paramilitary Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n
Luxury items including sports memorabilia and cash were taken from his home. The convicted drug pusher said the items belonged to a child and should not have been taken.<\/p>\n
In 2014, McConnell was jailed for six months at Belfast Crown Court for possessing, supplying and producing cannabis after more than \u00a320,000 worth of gear was found at a disused bakery in east Belfast.<\/p>\n
In a recording made by the woman he was convicted of harassing, she says: \u201cI pushed past him and ran out of my house even though I knew it was him, which made it a bit more scarier because I haven\u2019t even been talking to him, so why was he at my house?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes no sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s the most shocking part… obviously he didn\u2019t touch me but he wasn\u2019t doing all of that to come in and ask me for a cup of tea.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shouted \u2018f*** off, get away from my house, what do you want?\u2019 I mean, he wasn\u2019t that intoxicated; he was able to enter a home from a locked f***ing window.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 47-year-old threatened the veteran UVF boss and others in a jaw-dropping rant \u2013 calling them \u201ctraitors\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-138618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}