A lone piper led the family and hundreds of friends of murdered 20-year-old Christopher ‘Cricky’ Meli to New Barnsley’s Church of the Annunciation for his Requiem Mass yesterday. The father-of-one from Sliabh Dubh Lane was brutally beaten to death on waste ground near Glasvey Close in Twinbrook in the early hours of Saturday, December 13. […]
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Tragic Christopher laid to rest amidst emotional scenes in New Barnsley
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Disabled youth targeted by car gang close to scene of Meli murder
A disabled teenager was viciously beaten by a gang in another attack in the Colin area of Belfast. A car pulled up beside the the youth and three other young men, including one of the victim’s brothers, at around 2am on Sunday and several men got out and proceeded to attack them. The attack took […]
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Victory as Council dump asbestos dump
COMMUNITIES living close to the Black Mountain are rejoicing after plans for a toxic asbestos dump on the hills overlooking Belfast were rejected on Tuesday night. Belfast City Council’s Planning Committee voted against the application at the meeting with eight councillors opposing the plans, two in favour and one abstention. The application had legally complied […]
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200 YOUTHS ON RAMPAGE HOURS BEFORE MURDER
EARLIER on the same night that 20-year-old Christopher Meli was murdered in Twinbrook, gangs of youths went on the rampage in the shadow of Woodbourne police station – less than a mile away – causing mayhem, damage and physically assaulting a young girl at a bus stop. Despite Friday night’s carnage on the PSNI’s doorstep and […]
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Positive exam figures welcomed by Education Minister O’Dowd
The number of students attaining five GCSEs or more at a minimum grade of C has passed the two-thirds mark. 67 per cent of pupils are in that bracket, compared to 65.2 per cent in the year 2013/14, according to figures just released by the Department of Education. There’s further good news for Education Minister […]
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Hundreds turn out at candlelit vigil for murdered Christopher
THERE were emotional scenes last night as over 300 people attended a vigil for 20-year-old Christopher ‘Cricky’ Meli who was brutally set upon and murdered in Twinbrook in the early hours of Saturday morning. The father-of-one from Springfield’s Sliabh Dubh Lane was viciously attacked by a gang of youths and beaten in a “sustained and […]
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