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The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary gang — many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) — that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was based in the Shankill area and was responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian attacks.
The gang was notorious for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering random or suspected Catholic civilians; each was beaten ferociously and had their throat slashed with a butcher's knife. Some were also tortured and attacked with a hatchet. The gang also killed six Ulster Protestants over personal disputes and two other Protestants mistaken for Catholics.
Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history. However, gang leader Lenny Murphy and his two chief "lieutenants" escaped prosecution. Murphy was murdered in November 1982 by the Provisional IRA, likely acting with loyalist paramilitaries who perceived him as a threat.[1] The Butchers brought a new level of paramilitary violence to a country already hardened by death and destruction.[2] The judge who oversaw the 1979 trial described their crimes as "a lasting monument to blind sectarian bigotry".
The ShankillButchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary gang — many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) — that was active between...
1982) was a Northern Irish loyalist and UVF officer. As leader of the ShankillButchers gang, Murphy was responsible for the murders of mainly Catholic civilians...
The UVF continued to be active on the Shankill throughout the Troubles, most notoriously with the ShankillButchers led by Lenny Murphy, as well as the...
ShankillButchers split off from the UVF in the mid-1970s and carried out a series of grisly murders. These are the basis of the song. The Butchers abducted...
June 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2015. Dillon, Martin (1989). The ShankillButchers. ISBN 0-415-92231-3 "Robert Black: Convicted child killer dies in...
non-fiction works on The Troubles, including his bestselling trilogy, The ShankillButchers, The Dirty War and God and the Gun, about the Northern Ireland conflict...
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the Shankill Road, affording the attackers a speedy getaway. Dillon devotes several pages to the Chlorane Bar attack in his book The ShankillButchers: the...
terrorism cases during those years. Martin Dillon, in his book on the ShankillButchers trial described Ronald Appleton as "one of the outstanding lawyers...
historical events and themes from around the world ("Yankee Bayonet", "ShankillButchers"). Their musical style has been described as indie rock, baroque pop...
July: Lenny Murphy (leader of the "ShankillButchers") was released from prison. 17 July: Members of the "ShankillButchers" beat-to-death a Protestant civilian...
to mid-1977, a unit of the UVF dubbed the ShankillButchers (a group of UVF men based on Belfast's Shankill Road) carried out a series of sectarian murders...
original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019. Dillon, Martin. The Shankillbutchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder. Routledge, 1999. Pages...
who admitted the plot in a 2004 documentary. Another UVF gang, the "ShankillButchers", also planned retaliation for the massacre. This gang, led by Lenny...
Culture" on the Shankill on Saturday 19 August 2000, which saw thousands of UDA members from across Northern Ireland descend on his Lower Shankill stronghold...
Wright Stuff. In 2011, Nolan presented a documentary focusing on the ShankillButchers. Since 2012, Nolan has hosted a weekly TV version of The Nolan Show...
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