Close to 100 women and children have blocked the lower part of the Shankill Road this evening claiming the community is living in fear under the UDA.
The protest took place just yards from the home of the murdered loyalist Alan McCullough whose body was removed from a shallow grave outside Belfast this evening so a post-mortem could take place.
The women claim they are living in fear and many of their sons have been exiled by the new leadership of the UDA installed by the paramilitary group following the enforced departure of the faction formerly led by Johnny Adair.
The women called on the leadership of the UDA in the Lower Shankill to be stood down and for the overall leadership to allow their families return.
