2012 murder in Northern Ireland
Prison Officer and Orange Order member David Black was killed on 1 November 2012 by members of the New IRA. The group claimed the killing 11 days later. He was the first prison officer to be killed by dissident Irish republicans since the Good Friday Agreement.
Attack.
Black was driving to work in Maghaberry Prison when he was shot by members of the New IRA at 7:30 am. He was on the motorway between Portadown and Lurgan, when a car with Dublin registration plates drove up beside him and fired shots at him, and he veered into a ditch.
Aftermath.
The trial of a man charged with aiding and abetting Black's murder collapsed in 2018.
In November 2022, on the tenth anniversary of the murder, Black's widow made a fresh appeal for information on her husband's killers.
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