Who shot Robert Basher Bates?
ROBERT `BASHER’ BATES, A ONE TIME MEMBER of the notorious Shankill Butcher gang was shot dead in Belfast on Wednesday morning 11 June. It is believed he was killed by loyalists.
Is the UVF Protestant or Catholic?
Ulster Volunteer Force
| Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) | |
|---|---|
| Ideology | Ulster loyalism British unionism Protestant extremism |
| Size | 1,500 at peak in the 1970s (hard core of 400–500 gunmen and bombers) Estimated several hundred members in Active service units by 1990s 300 (2010) 7,500 (total, 2020) |
| Allies | Red Hand Commando |
Who is Mr A Shankill Butchers?
John Alexander Thompson Murphy (26 August 1950 – 10 August 1998) was a loyalist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was one of the three leading men in the “Shankill Butchers”, an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) murder gang.
Who died in the Shankill bombing?
The victims of the Shankill bombing included John Frizzell, 63, who owned the fish shop. His daughter Sharon McBride, 29, was helping her father and was also killed. Michael Morrison, 27, his partner Evelyn Baird, 27, and their daughter, Michelle, 7, died. Their two other children were left parentless.
Has Ireland ever had a serial killer?
Both were convicted of the murders of two young women, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, in 1976. O’Carroll, who described them as Ireland’s first serial murderers, said both women suffered harrowing deaths before their bodies were dumped in lakes. “John Shaw was an animal of a man, a brutal man.
Why was UVF set up?
Many Ulster Protestants feared being governed by a Catholic-majority parliament in Dublin and losing their links with Great Britain. In 1913, the militias were organised into the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and vowed to resist any attempts by the British Government to impose Home Rule on Ulster.