The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary serial killer gang – many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) – that was...
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Robert Bates (loyalist) (category Shankill Butchers)
and the infamous Shankill Butchers gang, led by Lenny Murphy. Bates was born into an Ulster Protestant family and grew up in the Shankill Road area of Belfast...
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Lenny Murphy (category Shankill Butchers)
Northern Irish loyalist, UVF officer and serial killer. As leader of the Shankill Butchers gang, Murphy was responsible for the murders of mainly Catholic civilians...
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William Moore (loyalist) (category Shankill Butchers)
was a member of the Shankill Butchers, an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. It was Moore who provided the black taxi and butcher knives which the gang...
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The UVF continued to be active on the Shankill throughout the Troubles, most notoriously with the Shankill Butchers led by Lenny Murphy, as well as the...
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The Crane Wife (section "Shankill Butchers")
Shankill Butchers split off from the UVF in the mid-1970s and carried out a series of grisly murders. These are the basis of the song. The Butchers abducted...
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Ronald Appleton (section Shankill Butchers Killings)
terrorism cases during those years. Martin Dillon, in his book on the Shankill Butchers trial described Ronald Appleton as "one of the outstanding lawyers...
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John Murphy (loyalist) (category Shankill Butchers)
Northern Irish loyalist. He was one of the three leading men in the "Shankill Butchers", an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. Murphy was the second of three...
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Jimmy Nesbitt (policeman) (category Shankill Butchers)
investigating the notorious Shankill Butchers' killings in the mid-1970s. Working from the C Division headquarters at Tennent Street off Shankill Road, Belfast, he...
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non-fiction works on the Troubles, including his bestselling trilogy, The Shankill Butchers, The Dirty War and God and the Gun, about the Northern Ireland conflict...
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June 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2015. Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers. ISBN 0-415-92231-3 "Robert Black: Convicted child killer dies in...
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Speck? (Eight Nurses You Wrecked)" – Macabre "Shankill Butchers" – The Decemberists "Shankill Butchers" – Sarah Jarosz "Doctor Death ((Harold Shipman))"...
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assassinations of some of their key members by IRA hit squads, such as Shankill Butcher members Lenny Murphy, John Bingham, and William "Frenchie" Marchant...
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historical events and themes from around the world ("Yankee Bayonet", "Shankill Butchers"). Their musical style has been described as indie rock, baroque pop...
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dirty protest. Whilst in prison, Hughes formed a friendship with Shankill Butchers and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member Robert Bates, who later foiled...
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July: Lenny Murphy (leader of the "Shankill Butchers") was released from prison. 17 July: Members of the "Shankill Butchers" beat-to-death a Protestant civilian...
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the Shankill Road, affording the attackers a speedy getaway. Dillon devotes several pages to the Chlorane Bar attack in his book The Shankill Butchers: the...
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novel of the same name. The story is loosely based on the real-life "Shankill Butchers", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings...
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to mid-1977, a unit of the UVF dubbed the Shankill Butchers (a group of UVF men based on Belfast's Shankill Road) carried out a series of sectarian murders...
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bench and he frequently came under threat. In 1979, he tried the Shankill Butchers and gave out 42 life sentences, a record in British legal history...
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Wright Stuff. In 2011, Nolan presented a documentary focusing on the Shankill Butchers. Since 2008, Nolan has hosted a weekly TV version of The Nolan Show...
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original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019. Dillon, Martin. The Shankill butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. Routledge, 1999. Pages...
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activity by paramilitary groups. Ulster Loyalism Martin Dillon, The Shankill butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. Routledge, 1999. pp 20–23...
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and sells their meat. Butcher, The Butcher, Butchers, or Butcher's may also refer to: Butcher (surname), a common surname Butcher of Amritsar: Reginald...
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most savage attacks were perpetrated by a Protestant gang dubbed the Shankill Butchers, led by Lenny Murphy who was described as a psychopath and a sadist...
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232. Google Books. Retrieved 31-03-11 Dillon, Martin (1989). The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. New York: Routledge....
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Indian companion. In April 1977 he was recruited by members of the Shankill Butchers gang who beginning in late 1975 had carried out a series of cut-throat...
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who admitted the plot in a 2004 documentary. Another UVF gang, the "Shankill Butchers", also planned retaliation for the massacre. This gang, led by Lenny...
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have been called "Diplock courts" in the media. Shankill Butchers Sean Kelly, who perpetrated the Shankill Road bombing The Christy Walsh case The Milltown...
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John McKeague (section Shankill Defence Association)
Gusty Spence, Blackstaff Press, 2001, p. 151 Martin Dillon, The Shankill Butchers, p. 23 Dillon, The Trigger Men, p. 104 Mulvenna, Tartan Gangs and...
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