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William Stephen Wright (7 July 1960 – 27 December 1997), known as King Rat, was a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader who founded the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) during The Troubles. [2] Wright had joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in his home town of Portadown around 1975.
Sep 14, 2010 · Billy Wright was one of the most terrifying loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. The man nicknamed King Rat - a term coined by journalists on the Sunday World newspaper - waged a...
May 21, 2024 · A loyalist killer has claimed the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) believed Billy Wright, the organisation’s leader in Mid Ulster, was a state agent. Laurence Maguire told BBC NI’s Spotlight ...
Nov 8, 2023 · The 700-page report into the execution-style killing of Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) death-squad leader, Billy 'King Rat' Wright, in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison in December 1997, was made public on September 2010. Unsurprisingly, it categorically ruled out any state collusion in his assassination.
Sep 14, 2010 · 14 September 2010. Following the publication of a report into the 1997 murder of loyalist leader Billy Wright, BBC News looks at the timeline of events surrounding his life and death.
A leading protestant paramilitary, Billy Wright, has been shot dead at the maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Wright was the leader of a dissident paramilitary group, the...
Billy Wright, known to all as "King Rat", was one of Northern Ireland's most feared loyalist assassins, surviving for years despite determined efforts to "take him out." The police wanted to...
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