On 27 May a UVF gang set forth after this declaration to find and kill a well-known Belfast Republican, Leo Martin. Failing to find him, they shot the nearest convenient Catholic, John Scullion, who died of his wounds on 11 June. By 23 June stories about both the UVF and the UPV had become so commonplace in Loyalist areas that a Labour MP, Tom Boyd, publicly urged the Government to take action.
