‘Winkie’ Rea: The loyalist leader who led the Red Hand Commando
The BelTel · Belfast Telegraph Podcasts
December 18, 202324m 35s
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Show Notes
Winston Rea, known as Winkie Rea, died aged 72 at the beginning of December. He was the ex-leader of the loyalist terror group, the ‘Red Hand Commando’, and until his death was on trial in connection with two sectarian murders. He denied all 19 terror charges against him. Who was Winkie Rea, what was the Red Hand Commando, and had the ruthless paramilitary man really become a man of peace? Belfast Telegraph’s security correspondent Alison Morris joins Ciarán Dunbar.
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