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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Mums killer is a monster

Laundrette murderer is jailed for 16 years
THE daughter of a woman murdered by laundrette killer Fred McClenaghan last night described him as a monster. Suzanne Davis said that the 16-year sentence for the crime in Portstewart last year was too lenient for an evil, evil man. McClenaghan shot his former lover, 51-year-old mother of four Marion Millican, in the chest with an antique shotgun last March. Judge Corinne Philpott QC told 49-year-old McClenaghan the jury had rejected his claims of diminished responsibility, or that the shooting was an accident, and that they had convicted him of deliberate murder. The Antrim Crown Court judge, sitting in Belfast, said the aggravating features in the case included the fact that the shooting was planned using an untraceable illegal shotgun which he had obtained at least two weeks before the murder. Judge Philpott said there was also evidence that McClenaghan had attacked Mrs Millican in the past, once breaking a tooth and another time when he had tried to strangle her, which to Mrs Millican had been the last straw. Turn to page 16

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FARM VISIT: UFU president Harry Sinclair and EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos with host farmer Walter Hoy, from Templepatrick. See pages 36 and 37 for full coverage.

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and Rural Enterprise students in a minutes (CAFRE) 22, who died last Saturday the tragedy and required EUROPEAN Farm remember the Spence silence to in an accident involving evening Commissioner a slurry family. treatment for inhalation hospital tank on their family Dacian Ciolos this week Speaking of fumes, at farm on the took part Greenmount CAFREs Drumlough gave an emotional in a tribute to the Road, Hillsborough. tribute to Campus both the Spence family her father and brothers The deaths leave behind following the tragic Commissioner and at their accident on UUP Noels funeral service in Jim Nicholson extended MEP wife Essie, their two daughters, their Co Down farm Ballynahinch which claimed Baptist Church on their Laura and sympathies to all those the lives of a father Emma and Grahams and his two the touched by afternoon which was Wednesday wife Andrea and sons. tragedy. their young many representative attended by children Nathan and The Mr Ciolos, who was s Georgia. on a short have wider farming community sporting and political of farming, The three men visit to the province, been bodies. Thousands joined expressed united in its grief and rescue each other died trying to of politicians, farm sympathies to the family after becoming are expected to attend people stakeholders circle overcome by fumes Ravenhill, the and College of Agriculture, of Noel Spence, 58, in a slurry home of Ulster Rugby, and his tank on their Food two sons Graham, tomorrow farm. 30, and Nevin, (Sunday) for a memorial Emma, who was caught service up in Continued

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Marion Millican was murdered in a Portstewart laundrette last year

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Convicted killer Fred McClenaghan Suzanne Davis outside court after Fred McClenaghan was sentenced
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