Kevin Brendan McDaid (1960 – 24 May 2009) was a community worker in Coleraine, Northern Ireland who was killed by a mob outside his home on 24 May 2009.
[2][3] Evelyn McDaid subsequently appealed for no retaliation to be taken, pointing out that her husband would not want this and that theirs was a mixed marriage – he was Catholic, she Protestant.
[2][5] In June 2009, police told the High Court that they suspected that members of the UDA were involved in the killing, with the judge concluding that there were "sectarian overtones" to the attack.
[7] A court was told that twenty people received death threats after the murder, half of those threatened being witnesses.
[7] In February 2010 eleven people had been charged with Kevin McDaids' murder, all of them barred by court order from Coleraine.