Google Me’s loyal thug threatened to burn down the farmer

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An alleged UDA gangster admitted that he threatened to burn a farmer outside his home after he Google me.

Victim claimed Darren McMaw also threatened to poison his livestock.

On Thursday, in the dock of the Antrim Crown Court, two of the five charges against McMaw were again brought to the 36-year-old following a request from his attorney Gavin Duffy QC.

McMaw, of Portlee Walk in Antrim, admitted to two allegations that he threatened to damage the property on August 19 and 27 last year as he threatened the farmer that he would burn everything in his yard.

Charges accusing the former UDA murder suspect of blackmail, common assault and a third charge of threatening property damage were left on the books by a prosecutor.

None of the facts of the case were opened during Thursday’s brief hearing, but when McMaw was first charged last August, a police officer said the offenses were linked to a number of incidents.

The first was on August 19, when a car pulled up outside the complainants’ yard and McMaw claimed the farmer had damaged his car and it would have cost 1,000 repairs.

The injured party said he had no idea what he was talking about and the man replied: Do you know who I am? Im Darren McMaw Google and you will find me, the officer said.

The policeman revealed that McMaw was a suspect in the murder of George Geordie Gilmore in the South East Antrim UDA in 2017. The officer said McMaw was acquitted of the murder, but that the police believed that was why he had told Google his name.

McMaw threatened that if the money wasn’t paid: I’ll burn everything you own in this yard, destroy and destroy everything if you don’t give me the money.

There was another incident a week later when McMaw returned to the property and asked for 1,000 or there will be problems. As a result, the victim installed a CCTV camera in his yard.

The latest exchange, however, was recorded by the victim on his cellphone when McMaw sided with him as if to punch him and threatened that he would poison his cattle and told him that he would bring him to his knees if damage to the his car was not paid.

McMaw was arrested when the farmer contacted police and during interviews he admitted he had been in the yard but denied making any threats.

Geordie Gilmore (44) was shot in the head on March 13, 2017, while driving along Pinewood Avenue in Carrickfergus in his white Vauxhall Insignia car and died in hospital the following day from a catastrophic brain injury.

The Crown claimed the gunman was David McMaw, with Brian Roy McLean acting as a lookout and Darren McMaw engaging in a scouting exercise following Mr. Gilmore in his van prior to the deadly gun attack.

Judge McAlinden said he was not persuaded beyond reasonable doubt that all three were guilty.

Following McMaws’ confessions to threatening a farmer Thursday, Judge Patricia Smyth postponed the sentence pending the completion of a pre-sentencing probation report.

McMaw was released on bail and is expected to be sentenced on November 16.

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