Loyalist LVF leader Billy Wright helping serve his men dinner in the Maze Prisons H6, 1997
Loyalist Michael Stone in a 2003 photoshoot,
Michael Stone was sentenced to a total of 684 years in 1988 for the Milltown Cemetery attack and other killings.
Ray Smallwoods :
A leading member of John McMichael's South Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), Smallwoods later served as a leading adviser to the UDA's Inner Council. He was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) outside his Lisburn home on the 11th July 1994.
Dominic 'Mad Dog' McGlinchey
THESE are the pictures from one of the most amazing gun battles in the Republic in recent decades.
They show the bullet ridden garda cars and windows from the gun fight between then INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey and the heavily armed garda task force from Special Branch sent to capture him, almost 40 years ago.
The death of Jim "Doris day" Gray
Gray was shot five times in the back and killed outside his father's house in the east Belfast Clarawood estate on 4 October 2005, by two unknown gunmen. The shooting took place at 8 p.m. while he was unloading weight-lifting equipment from the boot of his silver Mini Cooper. As his body lay on the front lawn, local people took photos and passed the news to others via their mobile phones.
According to Gray's father, his son had left the house after Gary Matthews arrived to give him a set of weights and cigarettes that he had bought for Gray in Spain. Shots rang out and when Gray's father went out to see what had happened he found his son had been shot and Matthews was ringing for an ambulance. The involvement of other loyalist factions was suspected, fueling speculation that he was murdered to prevent him making an agreement with the police to expose his former associates in the UDA. Six people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder, Ultimately however no charges were brought with the investigating officer, Detective Inspector Deborah McMaster, admitting at Gray's inquest in 2007 that the police had largely given up on securing any convictions due to a lack of evidence.
East Belfast MP Peter Robinson (later First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 to January 2016) stated after Gray's killing that "there was no excuse for the murder".Fellow UDA member and former friend, Michael Stone claimed that Gray had told him he was a businessman rather than a loyalist, as loyalism did not pay the bills.
Unlike most brigadiers, he was not given a paramilitary funeral, complete with volleys of gunfire fired over the coffin. It was a private affair, attended by only 14 mourners. As a further sign of his unpopularity among loyalists, a street disco was held in east Belfast to celebrate his death. Gray's effigy, with a curtain ring representing his trademark single gold earring, was thrown upon a bonfire. In lieu of murals dedicated to his memory, there was only graffiti scrawled on an east Belfast wall which read: "Jim Gray RIP – Rest in Pink".Gray's estate was frozen by the Assets Recovery Agency as part of an investigation into his criminality.
Philomena Hanna - 28th April 1992
SEFF remembers Philomena Hanna who was murdered by Johnny Adairs C Company member Steven "Top Gun" McKeag
Philomena was a 26-year-old Roman Catholic civilian, with two children and a shop worker was from Dermott Hill, Belfast. Philomena was serving behind the counter of a pharmacy on the Springfield Road just after 9:20am when a UDA/UFF gunman walked in the shop and shot her. The gunman's accomplice was waiting outside on a motorcycle which had been stolen.
After the gunman shot Philomena, he fired several more shots into her as she lay on the ground. He emptied his revolver into her head and upper body.
Philomena frequently crossed the peaceline to bring prescriptions into a nearby loyalist estate. It was claimed by the UFF that she was a member of the IRA and the sister of a prominent Sinn Fein official - Richard McAuley.
Philomena's family denied this and a detective dismissed the UFF's claim at the inquest - that it had used "high-grade intelligence" to identify Philomena. He added: "if that was high-grade intelligence, I would not like to see their low-grade intelligence".
