Looking for Lisa

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From The BBC/NI:

Her death came just weeks after the murder of Robert McCartney, but while his killing made headlines worldwide, Lisa Dorrian has been forgotten. Was she the victim of Loyalist paramilitaries as many believe? And where is her body? Angelique Chrisafis investigates

Friday April 29, 2005
The Guardian

Ballyhalbert holiday caravan park, according to the sign in front a cluster of grey mobile homes decorated with plastic swans and hanging baskets, "Is a whole new way of life!"

This is the most easterly village in Northern Ireland, where the Scottish hills loom across a narrow stretch of sea and "Christ died for our sins" beams down from the wall of the Gospel Hall. There was a pub here once, but the lady in Ballyhalbert's only shop can't even remember when it closed. A shred of rotting union flag bunting clings to a telegraph pole. Even the red, white and blue paint on the kerbstones that tells you that Ballyhalbert is Protestant and proud of it is chipped and fading.

In the slightly snobbish hierarchy of caravanning on the Ards peninsula of County Down, this pebble-dashed village is a decent place without the rough "Shankill-sur-mer" connotations of other holiday sites nearby.

So when Lisa Dorrian, a smiley and impressionable 25-year-old sandwich shop worker from up the coast at Bangor, told her parents she was off there for the weekend with a new crowd of friends, they didn't think anything of it. It was late February. She had split up with a long-term boyfriend before Christmas and had met a new crowd. She was deeply into fashion and was wearing her white furry moonboots.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1472921,00.html