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Loyalist official beat fellow member with ceremonial mallet at Orange lodge meeting
A loyalist group official who beat a fellow member with a ceremonial mallet over a “breach of protocol” has been spared a jail term. William Fairley, 67, described by his lawyer as a “chief marshal”, struck Cameron Gillespie, 57, in the face with the wooden gavel at the Redding and Westquarter Unity Club, Falkirk, the town's sheriff court heard.