{"id":83069,"date":"2025-05-07T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83069\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T23:12:13","slug":"winston-winkie-irvine-cleric-gary-mason-and-ex-policing-board-member-deborah-watters-write-references-for-top-loyalist-facing-jail-over-firearms-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83069\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston \u2018Winkie\u2019 Irvine: Cleric Gary Mason and ex-Policing Board member Deborah Watters write references for top loyalist facing jail over firearms charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Irvine and co-accused to be sentenced next week<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Winston 'Winkie' Irvine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1df9e8ee-7f10-454f-88fc-7e75ece7c663.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)\">Winston &#8216;Winkie&#8217; Irvine<\/p>\n<p>Allison Morris and Ashleigh McDonald<\/p>\n<p>Today at 22:36<\/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)\">References provided by a former police officer, a minister and an ex-Policing Board member have been submitted to a court for consideration in the sentencing of two loyalists on gun-running charges.<\/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)\">Winston \u2018Winkie\u2019 Irvine and Robin Workman were remanded into custody ahead of a tariff hearing next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irvine and co-accused to be sentenced next week Winston &#8216;Winkie&#8217; Irvine Allison Morris and Ashleigh McDonald Today at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[25912,2378,1144,1610,16,15,6569],"class_list":{"0":"post-83069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-allison-morris","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-uvf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114469086351679892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}