 The killing, which involved dismemberment and the burning of the body in the Ormeau Park, was so gruesome that the local press speculated that it might have been carried out as part of a Satanic ritual.However, Gareth Mulvenna has claimed that McKeague was serving a sentence in Long Kesh for robbery when McDermott was murdered casting doubt over the validity of Dillons accusations.On 3 October 1975, Alice McGuinness, a Catholic civilian, was injured in an IRA bomb attack on McKeague's hardware shop on the Albertbridge Road.