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Wright later claimed that his decision to join the YCV had been influenced by the Kingsmill massacre of January 1976, when ten local Protestant civilians were killed by republicans. Wright's cousin Jim Wright, future father-in-law Billy Corrigan, and brother-in-law Leslie Corrigan, were also killed by republicans in this period. [7]
Jean Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia. [2] She was one of only two women executed in Australia during the twentieth century (the other being Martha Rendell, hanged in 1909 in Western Australia for murdering her de facto husband's children). [65] The previous execution of a woman in Victoria was in 1895. [63]
Wright was killed on 27 December 1997 inside the Maze Prison, where he was imprisoned for having made threats, once more against a woman. Three members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot Wright dead inside a prison van in the forecourt outside H Block 6 as it was transporting him and fellow LVF prisoner Norman Green to the ...
This was followed by a fracas at the Portadown F.C. Social Club on 27 December 1999 where LVF members were commemorating the death of their comrade Billy Wright, shot and killed inside the Maze Prison by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) exactly two years previously. When Jameson entered the club, several LVF men began to push and ...
A doorman, Catholic civilian Terry Enright (28), was killed. He was a cross-community worker who helped steer young people away from violence. The LVF said it was revenge for the killing of Billy Wright. [43] [44] 18 January: the LVF killed Catholic civilian Fergal McCusker (28) in Maghera, County Londonderry. He was kidnapped and shot dead ...
The white Brooklyn Center police officer was sentenced to two years in prison for fatally shooting Wright, a 20-year-old Black man and father-of-one, during a traffic stop in Minnesota on 11 April ...
Lawrence Murchan, a shopkeeper who was killed by McKeag and his unit on St James's Road on 28 September was the 2000th person to be killed during The Troubles. [11] This was followed on 22 December by an attack on the Devenish Arms in Finaghy, resulting in the death of civil servant Aidan Wallace and wounding an 8-year-old boy who lost an eye.
Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, was released from prison Monday after serving just over a year behind bars. Advocates for Wright say ...