Mark Langhammer - Clash With UDA

Clash With UDA

In 2001 Langhammer campaigned to have a permanent Police Service of Northern Ireland established in the loyalist Rathcoole area, where the South East Antrim Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) was particularly noted for racketeering and violence. Following Langhammer's campaigning the police agreed to establish a clinic at a local community centre although this initiative raised the ire of the local UDA Brigadier John Gregg who saw it as a threat to his criminal empire. In September that same year a pipe bomb was left under Langhammer's car outside his Whiteabbey home although it exploded in the early hours with no one hurt.