Shoukri brothers

The Shoukri brothers are a pair of Egyptian-Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries. Andre Khalef Shoukri was born in 1977, the son of a Coptic Christian Egyptian father and a Northern Irish mother. 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, died in 2008.

The brothers were natives of the Westland estate, an Ulster loyalist area of Belfast that forms an interface area with the Irish republican Little America area, the two places being divided by the Cavehill Road. The brothers were educated at Lagan College, which was the first religiously integrated school in Northern Ireland and Boys' Model School, a secondary school in the north of the city. Standing six feet tall and considered handsome on account of his exotic mixed-ethnic looks, Andre Shoukri was briefly on the books of a Templepatrick modelling agency in his youth. Both brothers, whilst still teenagers, enrolled in K Company of the UDA North Belfast Brigade, the section that covered the Westland estate. They were soon nicknamed "the Turks" and "the Pakis" on account of their swarthy appearance.

In June 1996, Andre, then 19, was charged with manslaughter after he was involved in a fight outside a north Belfast pub, in which he assaulted a Catholic tennis player, Gareth Parker. Parker later died from his injuries. Andre was acquitted of manslaughter but received a two-year sentence, after pleading guilty to unlawful and malicious wounding.

When interviewed in 2002 by The Irish News, Ihab said he had no problem killing Catholics, continuing that it had no effect on him.

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