Conor Maguire

Conor Maguire
Murdered by UVF 29th April 1992

Conor was 26 years of age, from the Ligoniel area of north Belfast. He was shot dead at his place of work, also at Ligoniel, on 29 April 1992. Mr Maguire was a member of the Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation (IPLO). He was constantly harassed by Crown forces, and was threatened by members of the RUC Special Branch shortly before his death that if he did not become an informer he would be shot dead by loyalists.  

At an inquest into the killing the victim’s mother said she was visited by the RUC at her home in 1990 and told her family were on a loyalist hit list. 

In February 1993, a former UVF member, who served a prison sentence in the 1980s, was fined £2,000 and given a six month suspended sentence for allowing his car to be used in the killing. He said he was told to go for a drink while his taxicab was used.