Shoukri brothers

The Shoukri brothers are a pair of Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries. Andre Khalef Shoukri was born in 1977, the son of a Coptic Christian Egyptian father and a Northern Irish mother.[1][2] He was alleged to have taken over the north Belfast Ulster Defence Association (UDA) leadership. In July 2003 he received a two-year prison sentence for unlawful possession of a gun and received a nine-year sentence for various crimes in 2007. Ihab Shoukri, who was the older brother by three years,[3] died in 2008.

  1. ^ "Familiar faces waiting to greet Shoukri in Maghaberry prison". Irish News Page. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
  2. ^ "How bling lost its lustre for flash corner boy thug". Belfast Telegraph Page. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
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