{"id":317411,"date":"2026-02-03T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317411\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:22:16","slug":"return-of-uvf-gangs-gruesome-twosome-mark-haddock-and-darren-moore-to-pick-up-where-they-left-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317411\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of UVF gang\u2019s\u00a0gruesome twosome: Mark Haddock and Darren Moore \u2018to pick up where they left off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Recently freed Special Branch informant in touch with henchman pal over drugs and money, say sources\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Haddock and Darren Moore leave court in 2006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c1fb43ee-2dac-4e36-aabc-06f92fe69fc3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mark Haddock and Darren Moore leave court in 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">UVF serial killer and Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been in touch with his former henchman Darren Moore about a return to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The double agent was released from the high-security Wakefield Prison in England last Wednesday having served a 12-year sentence for stabbing former best pal Terry Fairfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Recently freed Special Branch informant in touch with henchman pal over drugs and money, say sources Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[72211,663,9,10,153925,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,101039,7,8,19646,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-317411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-antrim-news","tag-belfast","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-barnes","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uvf","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116004555585146002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317411","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=317411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}