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Belfast lorry driver Fra McCaffery will not regain sight in eye after overpass attack
Since then, graffiti has appeared around Ulster, which is thought to have been done by the new group, or those connected to their cause.
Daubings criticising the protocol and the Irish Sea border appeared on the constituency office of DUP MLA Christopher Stalford, and on walls in the Belvoir estate in Belfast targeting former Irish Taoiseach and current Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.
Speaking of the recent threats towards port staff, Minister for Agriculture, the Environment and Rural affairs, Edwin Poots, said: In consultation with my staff I have decided to withdraw staff from Belfast and Larne ports tonight.
Blinded lorry driver Fra McCaffrey may be the first victim of a renegade loyalist group who are ready to go to war over the Irish Sea border.
The west Belfast lorry driver was left with serious head injuries as well as being blinded in one eye after a group dumped a bin load of rocks over an overpass in Larne – close to the port although Fra had not come through the new so-called ‘border’.
Police were stumped at the shocking and bizarre attack on the 56-year-old which happened three weeks ago and appeared to have no clear motive.
But we can reveal detectives are now investigating whether the incident was part of new loyalist campaign against any kind of border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.