25th Anniversary of Edgar Graham's murder
05 December 2008
Reflecting on the 25th anniversary of the IRA murder of Edgar Graham, Traditional Unionist Voice Leader Jim Allister MEP said:-
“Having known Edgar well from his student days in the Law Faculty at Queen’s University, where our under-graduate years overlapped, and later when we both served in the 1982 Assembly, I still vividly recall the shock, sorrow and anger which I felt over his brutal murder. To think that the ultimate reward for the Party of those who murdered him, and hundreds more of our best citizens, is to rule over us, adds to my revulsion. To this day his murderers have not been caught. If Sinn Fein was truly committed to justice and democracy they would be helping, even now, to bring his murderers, and those of all other innocent victims, to justice. But, as ever, they are still most interested in protecting their own and glorifying their evil exploits.
Edgar was a sound Unionist and exceptional talent. His murder was intended by IRA/Sinn Fein to rob Ulster, and particularly Unionism’s future, of an articulate and outstanding ambassador, and so sadly it did.
At this poignant time our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
