A CHILD OF THE TROUBLES: PRISON RIOTS PARAMILITARIES MURDER PEACE

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The group opened a second hotel in 2007 in Portland, Oregon, which featured turntables in the rooms and a library of records. Its New York hotel – where guests can choose between budget rooms with bunk beds to exclusive loft-style suites a landmark 1900s building. In Palm Springs the hotel was designed with a bohemian style to reflect the town's Californian heritage. Further hotels are due to open in Panama City and Los Angeles. Hugh was hit and then another gunman came up and fired more rounds into his body as he was lying on the ground.

By 1980, Payne was running Crumlin Road Opportunities, a cross-community project aimed at training with vocational skills young people who would contemporaneously be described as NEET – Not in Education, Employment, or Training. Trainees included Johnny Adair (who discusses the project in his autobiography) and Skelly McCrory. McCrory was at an event hosted by the Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1982. The Lord Mayor, Tommy Patton, “paid particular tribute” to Payne ( Belfast Telegraph, 18/06/82).

Another former officer Anne Graham tells how when she joined the RUC in 1976 she was first stationed at Tennent Street in north Belfast, which was at that time said to be the busiest police station in western Europe. The ratio of republican to nationalist victims of UDA violence in 1979 was unusually high, and the number of victims significantly lower than previous years, but otherwise 1979 was very much business as usual for the UDA in Belfast. You may or may not be acquainted with the name, Alex Calderwood, but you will most certainly have either lived or heard of the Troubles that terrorised the neighbourhoods of Northern Ireland. From their beginning in 1969, until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and beyond, all Northern Irish people have a story to tell — and it’s not a pretty one. These are stories of pain and anguish, of lives lost; lives still emphasised by empty chairs in the homes of loved ones.

In Trent’s defence, David Gibson-Lee said his client had been under the influence of drink and drugs, adding: “He did his best to admit his full involvement and is a man who is trying to put the past behind him.” The impact it had on the whole family was horrendous. My mother now had two sons murdered for absolutely no reason," he said.The body of the 20-year-old had been found in a derelict garage off the Shankill Road in January 1980. In Calderwood’s defence, Robert Gray said : “There is real evidence that he only became involved at the very last moment. He got involved as a result of manipulation by others.”