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PHILLIP BRETT & THE POLITICS OF ILLUSION. Gavin Brett, was just 18 years old, as he stood with his some of friends on a warm Summer Night outside St Enda's GAA Club on the Hightown Road in Glengormley. It was July 2001, and the Good Friday Agreement had been signed just three years earlier. This was supposed to be the era of new found peace. Gavin was a Protestant and his friends were Catholic. None of that mattered to them. Gavin had been attending St Enda's for the 18th birthday party of his good friend Michael Farrell. As they all laughed & joked outside the Club, a Saloon car drove past, shots were fired, and Gavin was hit twice. Gavin's father Michael, a paramedic, rushed to the scene of the shooting and gave his son CPR, but all attempts to revive Gavin failed, and he died in his father's arms. Lying close to Gavin, was his friend, Michael Farrell who had also been shot & wounded in the attack. The Vauxhall Nova Saloon car was later found burnt out in the nearby Loyalist New Mossley Estate in Newtownabbey. There was widespread political condemnation of the murder. The attack was claimed by the Red Hand Defenders, a cover name for both the UDA & LVF. The PSNI had little doubt that the UDA had carried out the attack. The UDA had shot Gavin that night because they had presumed that he was a Catholic. But they were wrong... Gavin's younger brother is Philip Brett who is now a DUP MLA in the Stormont Assembly. He represents North Belfast encompassing the Newtownabbey area. In May this year, Philip Brett proudly stood for a photo with the Cloughfern Young Conquerors Flute Band from the Rathcoole Estate in Newtownabbey. That band are strongly linked with the UDA/UFF in Newtownabbey and they carry the flags & standards of that organisation. Philip Brett had just obtained financial funding for the band. A band that is openly linked with a Loyalist terrorist organisation who the Police had suspected in the killing of his brother. Brett has since scoffed at reporters questions over the picture, claiming that they were "demonising loyalist communities". In the past year, Philip Brett has become one of the most outspoken members of the DUP at Stormont. His behaviour towards First Minister Michelle O'Neill at a recent Committee Meeting drew widespread criticism from both political & media quarters. He regularly speaks about "terrorism" & "lawbreaking" within the Stormont Assembly. Perhaps more than anything, it is the sheer hypocrisy of the DUP that galls so many people here. A Political Party that had strong links to organisations like Ulster Resistance. A politics of illusion... HENRY JOY.

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