The Billy Boy
The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright Chris Anderson, Tim Pat Coogan (Foreword)
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
ISBN: 1840186399
DDC: 941.6610824092
Edition: Hardcover; 2002-10-01
Summary:
A cult figure among loyalists, despised and feared by nationalists,
Billy "King Rat" Wright is reputed to have been involved in a number
of sectarian murders before he himself was shot dead by republican
gunmen inside the Maze Prison in 1997. Wright became involved with
loyalist paramilitaries at the age of 16, and in the early 1990s he
emerged as the UVF commander in the Mid-Ulster area. The Billy Boy
documents Wright's role in the Drumcree dispute of 1995-96 and his
split from the UVF, recounting how he ignored both a death threat and
an order to leave Northern Ireland, only to remain in Portadown and
form the Loyalist Volunteer Force. It covers Wright's trial and
subsequent imprisonment for a crime it has been claimed was set up by
the State; recounts the circumstances of his killing inside a
top-security prison; and investigates the allegations of State
collusion in Wright's death. Terrifically gripping and often
disturbing, The Billy Boy is an exhaustive account of a notorious
figure whose life and death were surrounded by controversy and
political debate.
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