Michael Stone (loyalist)

Michael Anthony Stone is a British former militant who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. He was convicted of three counts of murder committed at an IRA funeral in 1988. In 2000 he was released from prison on licence under the Good Friday Agreement. In November 2006, Stone was charged with attempted murder of Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, having been arrested attempting to enter the parliament buildings at Stormont while armed. He was convicted and sentenced in 2008 to a further 16 years' imprisonment, before being released on parole in 2021. ^{Michael Stone, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary}

2 April 1955

Born on the same birth day (2 April): Adam Fleming (journalist) • Billy Pierce • Clark Gregg • Dr. Demento • Erastus Brigham Bigelow • Evgeniya Kanaeva • Francisco Balagtas • Greg Camp • György Konrád • Hank Steinbrenner • James Vance (comics) • John Corvinus • Jonathon Sharkey • Leon Wilkeson • Linford Christie • Malika Oufkir • Nicholas Murray Butler • Pete Incaviglia • Pierre Carles • Richard Collinge • Roald Als • Roddy Maude-Roxby • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower)

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