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The commander of the Shankill Butchers was Lenny Murphy. Murphy was the youngest of three sons of Joyce (née Thompson) and William Murphy from the loyalist Shankill Road area of Belfast. At school, he was a known bully and would threaten other boys with a knife or with retribution from his two older brothers.
The Butchers were also involved in the murder of Noel Shaw, a loyalist from a rival UVF unit, who had shot dead Butcher gang-member Archie Waller in Downing Street, off the Shankill Road, in November 1975. Four days before his death, Waller had been involved in the abduction and murder of the Butchers' first victim, Francis Crossin.
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Murphy was the second of three sons born to William and Joyce Murphy, the others being William (eldest) and Lenny Murphy (youngest). Outside his paramilitary career, little is known about him, although Martin Dillon, author of a book on the "Shankill Butchers", wrote that John and William acted as muscle for their younger brother when the latter was engaged in petty crime at school.
William Moore (1949 – 17 May 2009) was a Northern Irish loyalist.He 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 used to carry out its killings.
Relatives of Shankill butchers victims Cornelius Neeson condemned the banner, stating that "it hurts the memory of those the butchers killed". [19] A fellow Lodge member and former friend of Bates defended the inclusion of his name to journalist Peter Taylor : "I knew him very well and he'd been a personal friend for twenty or thirty years and ...
Shankill Butchers: 1975–1982 23 23+ Various Ulster loyalist gang who murdered people in sectarian attacks [65] Murphy, Lenny: 1972–1982 11 (not including Shankill Butchers murders) 34+ (including Shankill Butchers murders) Shot dead by Provisional IRA gunmen on 16 November 1982 Leader of the Loyalist Shankill Butchers death squad. He killed ...
Hughes was the Officer Commanding during the 1980 hunger strike.Against the wishes of the IRA Army Council, on 27 October 1980, Hughes along with six other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger strike.