The scene of the hideous attack in north Belfast is set within a tinderbox, almost directly on the ‘interface’ between two nationalist and loyalist communities where paramilitary violence was widespread in Ulster’s dark past.
Kinnaird Avenue, where the incident took place in front of horrified residents and passers-by, is in a predominantly nationalist area near the staunchly republican New Lodge estate to the east.
Yet it’s also only a five-minute walk away from the Lower Shankill, a traditionally loyalist district.
The small block of flats where the victim Stephen Ogilvie lived is in Kinnaird Court, just off the avenue.
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