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IRSP Claim IRA Intimidation
The IRSP has called on the IRA to stop intimidating the widow of Joseph O'Connor, the Real IRA member who was shot dead in west Belfast last month.
Nicola O'Connor said she has not been allowed to return to her home since her husband's murder.
The Chief Constable said the investigation is still trying to establish which organisation killed him.
Father of three, Joe Joe O'Connor was shot dead outside his mother's home in Ballymurphy on October 13.
Since then his widow Nicola has been staying at her mother's home in New Barnsley trying to rebuild her life.
However, when she returned to collect children's clothes from her own home in the Springhill estate earlier this week, she was taunted by a group of around a hundred men with placards.
She said she has also received hate mail and threatening phone calls.
Joe Joe O'Connor was a member of the Real IRA and his murder is being blamed on the Provisional IRA.
The IRSP today called on the leadership of Sinn Fein to call off the intimidation of Mrs O'Connor and her mother has also called for an end to the protests saying that her daughter has no political agenda whatsoever.
Today the Chief Constable said they were still trying to establish who
had carried out the murder. When asked if Provisional IRA were responsible
for the murder, Mr Flanagan said: "That is certainly a line of inquiry
being pursued but its wrong to say there are imminent arrrests and its
wrong to say we've come to that conclusion at this stage."
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