Martin Corey

Martin Corey (born at Lurgan) is an Irish republican convicted for Provisional Irish Republican Army killings during the Troubles and reimprisoned in 2010 for alleged dissident republican activity. In December 1973, Corey and his accomplices were found guilty of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released on licence from the Maze Prison in June 1992.

From 1995, he worked as a gravedigger.

Reimprisonment Corey was taken back into custody on 16 April 2010, after the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Shaun Woodward, applied to the parole commission to have his release licence revoked, based on secret evidence linking Corey to dissident republicanism. Corey is a member of Republican Sinn Féin. The Appeal court under Declan Morgan ruled that, whatever flaws might be in the parole commission's process, Justice Treacy did not have the authority to release Corey or grant him bail. In December 2013, the UK Supreme Court upheld the Appeal court decision. and Republican Sinn Féin, and described as tantamount to internment. A website and social media campaign was launched. In May 2012, Corey was initially denied compassionate leave to attend the funeral mass for his brother.

In August 2012, the Prison Ombudsman determined that pieces of artwork confiscated from Corey by prison staff must be returned to him as they did not, as alleged, contain images that glorify terrorist activities.

Release On 15 January 2014, Corey was released from prison under licence. On the instructions of Secretary of State Theresa Villiers he was taken from the prison in a blacked-out van and released into the custody of his solicitor. His release was welcomed by Sinn Féin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party but criticised by Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party.