Sammy Hamilton was a Part-Time member of the RUCR. He had previously served for 17 years in the B Specials before they were disbanded. Sammy was left severally disabled after being shot, while off duty, in Newry on the 17th November 1981

“At this time the gunman was about five yards away. I then heard a voice saying, Sit, take what is coming, you are not going to be killed. Then a shot rang out quickly followed by another. The first shot broke the driver’s side window and hit me in the back of the head. The second hit my right arm, went through the arm and into my right lung”.

“I lost the sight in my right eye and was left with a huge hole where the bullet had shattered the skull above my right eye. Part of my right lung was also removed”.