Billy Wright – Peter Geoghegan

Billy Wright's murder and the whiff of state collusion

By peterPosted on 15th September 2010Posted in Guardian, Northern Ireland, PoliticsTagged Billy Wright, Bloody Sunday, Claudy, Collusion, Force Research Unit, Hamill, Nelson, Saville1 Comment

Some of my thoughts on the Billy Wright inquiry and the issue of state collusion in Northern Ireland featured in this posting on The Guardian’s Comment is Free forum on September 15: David Wright’s verdict on the £30m, six-year inquiry into the death of his son, Billy, in Northern Ireland’s Maze prison in 1997, was […]

£30m spent, but questions remain unanswered

By peterPosted on 15th September 2010Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, ScotsmanTagged Billy Wright, Collusion, INLA, Lord MacLean, LVF

Even in the fractious world of Troubles Northern Ireland, Billy Wright was a singularly divisive character. As the leader of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force in Portadown, he was responsible for the killings of more than 20 Catholics in the 1980s. In 1996, he rejected the UVF ceasefire, creating the Loyalist Volunteer Force and orchestrating […]