Hostage found dead
NZPA Belfast The body of a Catholic kidnap victim, Joesph Donegan, aged 48, was found in Belfast yesterday. Mr Donegan, a father of seven, was seized by Loyalist extremists on Fridav in a tit-for-tat move following the I.R.A. kidnapping of a parttime soldier, Tom Cochrane, aged 54. Immediately after it was confirmed that Mr Donegan had been killed, his family made a dramatic plea to Mr Cochrane's abductors to free him.
His (laughter Anne, aged 23, a Belfast journalist, said: “We still want Mr Cochrane to live because we do not want Mrs Cochrane to go through a similar ordeal." “If he is alive, we want him to go free and back to his family.” Mr Donegan’s body was found by men on their way to work in the fiercely Loyalist Shankill Road area. The police said there were “very severe" head injuries. Mr Donegan went out for a
game of pool in Belfast at the week-end, and was waylaid by Protestant gunmen to demand the release of Mr Cochrane, grabbed as he rode to work on a motorcycle in South Armagh. The kidnappings fuelled fears of rising violence in Northern Ireland after elections for a new assembly last week showed sectarian divisions hardening and dashed early prospects of powersharing between the Protestant majority and Catholic minority.
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