'The Pitchfork Murders' second print run now available in shops

Local historian Brian MacDonald has conducted extensive research into official records, news reports, British Army documents and conversations between soldiers in a forensic examination of this horrific double murder

Second print run now available in shops

ON 23 October 1972, the mutilated bodies of two Fermanagh men were discovered at a farmhouse in Newtownbutler. Originally believed to have been a loyalist killing carried out with a pitchfork, three members of the British Army's Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders' 'D' Delta Company were jailed for the killings almost ten years later.

Michael Naan (31) had his throat slashed and was restrained by one soldier as another stabbed him 17 times with a six-inch Bowie knife. Andrew Murray (23) was held down by soldiers and turned over as they stabbed him 13 times in the chest and back. Neither of the men had any political involvement.

In this publication to mark the 40th anniversary of the murders, local historian Brian MacDonald conducts extensive research into official records, news reports, British Army documents and conversations between soldiers.

The research uncovers a massive conspiracy on behalf of the British state and military to prevent the truth from emerging. 

Profits from this publication in aid of Cancer Research