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Two charged with killing UDA man

Tommy English - Shot dead in October 2000
Tommy English - Shot dead in October 2000

Two men in their 30s have appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court charged with the murder of a UDA man during a loyalist feud in October 2000.

Tommy English was shot dead in front of his wife at their Newtownabbey home on Hallowe'en night.

32-year-old Alexander Wood and 33-year-old Jason Loughlin, both from Newtownabbey, were both charged with his murder.

Mr Wood faces a further charge of membership of a proscribed organisation.

A total of eight people have been arrested in connection with the killing.

One of them is 40-year-old Mark Haddock, who today was refused bail at Belfast Magistrates court by District Judge Fiona Bagnell.

Haddock had been nearing the end of a ten-year sentence for attacking a doorman when the charges were brought against him by Northern Ireland's Historical Enquiries Team.