Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings information
Killings of a Roman Catholic man and a Protestant woman in Belfast during the Troubles
Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings
Part of the Troubles
Victims Irene Andrews and Senator Paddy Wilson
Location
Quarry off the Hightown Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date
25/26 June 1973
Attack type
Stabbing
Deaths
2 civilians
Perpetrator
John White (loyalist) part of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
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1960s and 1970s
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See also: The Troubles in Britain & Europe, Assassinations during the Troubles, and Loyalist feud
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The Troubles Assassinations in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe
1970s
John Barnhill killed by OIRA
Tommy Herron killed by UDA/UFF
Joe McCann killed by British Army
Michael Naan and Andrew Murray killed by British Army
Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killed by UDA/UFF
Ann Ogilby killed by UDA/UFF
Billy Hanna killed by UVF
Jim Hanna killed by UVF
Billy Fox killed by UDA/UFF
Billy McMillen killed by INLA
Thomas Niedermayer killed by PIRA
Martin McBirney killed by PIRA
William J. Staunton killed by PIRA
Ross McWhirter killed by PIRA
Robert McConnell killed by PIRA
Majella O'Hare killed by British Army
Máire Drumm killed by UVF
Christopher Ewart-Biggs killed by PIRA
Seamus Ludlow killed by RHC
John Francis Green killed by UVF
Robert Nairac killed by PIRA
Seamus Costello killed by OIRA
Jeffery Agate killed by PIRA
Richard Sykes killed by PIRA
Airey Neave killed by INLA
Louis Mountbatten killed by PIRA
1980s
Miriam Daly killed by UDA/UFF
Ronnie Bunting killed by UDA/UFF
James Stronge killed by PIRA
Norman Stronge killed by PIRA
William McCullough killed by INLA
John McKeague killed by INLA
Lenny Murphy killed by PIRA
Robert Bradford killed by PIRA
George Seawright killed by IPLO
Edgar Graham killed by PIRA
Anthony Berry killed by PIRA
John Bingham killed by PIRA
Larry Marley killed by UVF
Ta Power killed by IPLO
Gerard Steenson killed by INLA
Maurice Gibson killed by PIRA
Robert Seymour killed by PIRA
John McMichael killed by PIRA
William "Frenchie" Marchant killed by PIRA
Aidan McAnespie killed by British Army
James Craig killed by UDA/UFF
Pat Finucane killed by UDA/UFF
1990s
Ian Gow killed by PIRA
Fergal Caraher killed by Royal Marines
Eddie Fullerton killed by UDA/UFF
Martin O'Prey killed by UVF
Pearse Jordan killed by RUC
Sammy Ward killed by PIRA
Trevor King killed by INLA
Ray Smallwoods killed by PIRA
Joe Bratty killed by PIRA
Raymond Elder killed by PIRA
Gino Gallagher killed by INLA-GHQ
Hugh Torney killed by INLA
John Hemsworth killed by RUC
Billy Wright killed by INLA
Rosemary Nelson killed by LVF
acronyms
Republicans INLA = Irish National Liberation Army IPLO = Irish People's Liberation Organisation OIRA = Official Irish Republican Army PIRA = Provisional Irish Republican Army
Loyalists LVF = Loyalist Volunteer Force RHC = Red Hand Commando UDA/UFF = Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters UVF = Ulster Volunteer Force
Security Forces RUC = Royal Ulster Constabulary
see also: The Troubles in IrelandSee also: The Troubles in Britain and Europe
The killings of Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the night of 25/26 June 1973. The victims, Roman Catholic Senator Paddy Wilson and his Protestant friend Irene Andrews, were hacked and repeatedly stabbed to death by members of the "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF). This was a cover name for the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a then-legal Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation. John White, the UFF's commander, who used the pseudonym "Captain Black", was convicted of the sectarian double murder in 1978 and sentenced to life imprisonment. White, however maintained that the UFF's second-in-command Davy Payne helped him lead the assassination squad and played a major part in the attack. Although questioned by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) after the killings, Payne admitted nothing and was never charged.
Wilson was one of the founders and General Secretary of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Irene Andrews was noted in Belfast as a popular ballroom dancer. Their mutilated bodies were found lying in pools of blood on either side of Wilson's car, which was parked in a quarry off the Hightown Road near Cavehill. Wilson had been hacked and stabbed 30 times and his throat cut from ear to ear. Andrews had received 20 knife wounds. The killings were described by the judge at White's trial as "a frenzied attack, a psychotic outburst".
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