William "Billy" Stobie (1950 – 12 December 2001) was an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) quartermaster and RUC Special Branch informer who was involved...
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Stevens Inquiries (section William Stobie)
the fire protection system. In April 1999, as part of the Enquiry, William Stobie was arrested and charged with the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane....
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Stobie may refer to: Stobie pole, a kind of power pole common in South Australia Adam Stobie, Scottish prisoner in the 17th century James Stobie, 18th...
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A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel I-beams, joined by tie-bolts, and held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric...
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house on the estate. In 2001 William Stobie was killed on Forthriver Road by members of the UDA, a group to which Stobie had formerly belonged, after...
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of the inquiry, RUC Special Branch agent and loyalist quartermaster William Stobie, a member of the UDA, was later charged with supplying one of the pistols...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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He was taken from Belfast by the Stevens team after fellow informer William Stobie was killed by the UDA in 2001. Barrett was interviewed for an episode...
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The RHD claimed responsibility for shooting dead former UDA member William Stobie outside his home on Forthriver Road, Belfast. It was claimed he was...
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around 1980 but left again in 1981 after a disagreement with his superiors. William "Bucky" McCullough, a leading figure in the West Belfast Brigade, was killed...
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Stirling MC West Riding Regiment Temp Capt. William Stirling, Royal Army Medical Corps Capt. William Stobie, Royal Army Medical Corps Capt. Hugh Charles...
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the loyalists claimed that Toland was killed in retaliation for Corporal William Kidd, an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier killed by republicans in...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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spells as brigadier before being imprisoned leading to the appointment of William "Bonzer" Borland, a former footballer with Linfield, to the role in 2003...
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was given to the UDA by a soldier who had taken it from an Army base. William Stobie, a UDA quartermaster and police informer, handed the gun to his police...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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after he had criticised what he felt was the harsh treatment of his cousin William Mullan, whom Adair had ordered out of Northern Ireland because of alleged...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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people, and injuring 130. One of the dead included a member of the UDA, William Irvine (18). This day became known as Bloody Friday. The couple had been...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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football player. U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr., 95, United States Navy admiral. William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary, shot. Michael Bradshaw, 68, English...
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St. Michael of Scarborough (redirect from Adam Stobie)
Covenanter William Niven Steven Porteous Robert Reid, Weaver Robert Reid, Cathcart William Steven, Covenanter Alexander Stewart, Covenanter Adam Stobie, Covenanter...
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condemning the "lawless hooliganism and vandalism" of that night. For William Whitelaw, at the time Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the actions...
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first to be jailed and he was soon followed by Matt Kincaid, Spence and William "Winkie" Dodds, the commanders respectively of A, B and C companies, the...
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to be invited to meetings with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw after the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in...
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brought up in Denmark Street in the Lower Shankill Road area. His father William "Bucky" McCullough was a prominent UDA member gunned down by the Irish...
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Charles Harding Smith Gary "Smickers" Smyth Sammy Smyth Jim Spence William Stobie "Fat" Jackie Thompson Andy Tyrie John White South East Antrim Brigade...
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remove Elliott and so they enlisted loyalist veteran and British agent William McGrath to lead a whispering campaign designed at blackening Elliott's...
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