Billy Wright (loyalist)
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William Stephen Wright, known as King Rat, was a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader who founded the Loyalist Volunteer Force during The Troubles. Wright had joined the Ulster Volunteer Force
Skyline of Wolverhampton, England, where Wright was born to Northern Irish Protestant parents
Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager
Drumcree Church, Portadown where Wright appeared at the 1996 Drumcree standoff to support the Orange Order's right to march its traditional route through nationalist areas
Maze Prison, outside Lisburn, where Wright was sent in April 1997, and shot dead the following December
The Irish National Liberation Army is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 8 December 1974, during the 30-year period of conflict known as "the Troubles". The group seeks to remo
Billy Wright (loyalist)
…March, was convicted and sent to the Maze Prison. While imprisoned, Wright continued to direct the LVF. On 27 December 1997, Wright was assassinated by Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners with a gun smuggled into the prison. An inquiry into Wright's death concluded that serious failings had been shown in the prison…
An INLA active service unit posing with weapons in South Armagh, 11 November 1986
Divis Flats, Belfast
A commemoration on the 25th anniversary of the hunger strike