LOYALIST extremists have continued a spiral of killing since the main paramilitary groups announced their cease-fire in the autumn of 1994. Many of the murders have never been officially claimed by any organisation, though the finger of blame has often been levelled at the Loyalist Volunteer Force whose leader, Billy Wright, was part of the Committee.

Lurgan taxi driver Michael McGoldrick (1) was shot dead in July 1996. His body was discovered near the Derryhirk Inn at Aghagallon. He was last seen going to collect a fare the night before. Two gunmen, believed to be loyalists, burst into the west Belfast home of 44-year-old Catholic John Slane (2) on March 14,1997 and shot him dead.

Portadown Catholic Robert Hamill (3) died on May 8 last year, weeks after he was savagely beaten by a loyalist mob in the town centre. The father of three was attacked as he came out of St Patrick's Hall on Market Street.

Only days later, on May 13, the body of GAA official Sean Brown (4) was found beside his burnt-out car at Randalstown in Co Antrim. A father of six, Mr Brown was abducted as he locked the gates of the Bellaghy GAA club, of which he was chairman, after a meeting.

A member of the notorious Shankill Butchers, Bobby 'Basher' Bates, age 48, was gunned down at a prisoners' centre in east Belfast on June 11,in what was thought to be a 'grudge killing' by other loyalists. A former UVF member, Bates is thought to have been killed in a vendetta for his part in the murder of UDA man James Moorehead in 1977. The self-confessed killer was responsible for at least 19 murders throughout the 70s and 80s.

Off-duty RUC Constable Gregory Taylor was beaten to death outside a pub in Ballymoney, Co Antrim by a loyalist mob. The father of three died on June 1 after the attack. It is believed the killing was linked to a row over the policing of an Apprentice Boys parade in nearby Dunloy.

A lone gunman was responsible for the murder of 18-year-old Catholic Bernadette Martin (5), in her Protestant boyfriend's Co Antrim home. Her killer entered the house in Aghalee in the early hours of July 15 and shot the teenager dead.

The incident was followed by the sectarian murder of 16-year-old James Morgan (6), from near Castlewellan, Co Down. His body was found dumped in a field in the village of Clough on July 27 after he had been missing for days.

Glen Greer (Protestant "informer") , age 28, died almost instantly in a car-bomb attack in Bangor, Co Down on October 25. The father of three, whose wife was pregnant, was killed by the booby-trap bomb near his home as a group of children watched nearby. It is believed that loyalist paramilitaries carried out the attack.

On December 5, GAA official Gerry Devlin (7) was shot as he drove in to the car park of St Enda's club in Glengormley, Co Antrim, to pick up his brother. The 36-year-old football manager was fatally wounded with four shots to the head and body by a lone gunman.

Doorman Seamus Dillon (8) was gunned down on December 27 by LVF gunmen at the Glengannon Hotel in Dungannon. His murder - which was officially claimed by the splinter group - was seen as direct revenge for the killing of LVF leader Billy Wright in the Maze Prison earlier that day. (According to the Pat Finucane Centre, Dillon was NOT a member of the IRA, former or current.--webmaster)

The latest victim of loyalist paramilitaries was Edward Treanor (9). He died in the new year's eve gun attack on the Clifton Bar in Belfast.

THE Loyalist Volunteer Force has claimed responsibility for shooting dead the husband of Gerry Adams’ niece on January 10th, at a nightclub owned by a sister-in-law of top Ulster loyalist David Ervine. Father-of-two Terry “Junior” Enwright (10), 28, died after being hit in the chest and stomach. He was the third Catholic to be murdered in revenge for the INLA killing of LVF leader Billy Wright at the Maze Prison at Christmas.

Perhaps revenge is not the word. Fergal McCusker(11) was killed on the night of January 18th. The Loyalist Volunteer Force claimed responsibility.

Mary Brennan, 72, with her dead son Larry

January 19, INLA kills Protestant shopkeeper Jim Guiney who was a member and believed to be a leader in the loyalist UDA (Ulster Defence Association). Guiney's death was quickly followed by the LVF killing of Larry Brennan (12), a 52 year old taxi driver.

January 21, in Belfast, a Catholic shopkeeper, Ben Hughes(13), 55, was shot dead.

Liam Conway(14) became the seventh innocent Catholic murdered randomly by pro-British loyalists since Christmas. His murder came hours after the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed three recent murders and then claimed their reign of terror would halt. The UFF/UDA are closely linked with the Ulster Democratic Party who are led at the peace negotiations by Gary McMichael.

John McColgan (15) was a taxi driver based in the nationalist Whiterock area of west Belfast. Was as he was killed January 24th.

Damien carried by relatives of Philip

April 17 of 1998: Mark McNeill, Catholic taxi driver shot a half a dozen times. This death has been portrayed as not being sectarian in nature due to the "peace" agreement. McNeil was member of INLA and is said to have been killed in an internal feud.

April 21 of 1998: A lone gunman on a bicycle approached Adrian Lanff (17), a local Catholic council worker from the nationalist Garvaghy Road, who was working at a council yard in a Protestant area on the town's Armagh road. The gunman was seen to select his victim before shooting and fleeing. Adrian was then taken by ambulance to the nearby Craigavon area hospital, where he died from his injuries.

April 24 of 1998: University student Ciaran Heffron (18), age 22, was gunned down as he took a short-cut home early today from a night in the local pub with friends.

     Most of the above information comes from the Irish American Information Service, a non-profit organization provding up-to-the-minute objective coverage of news as it happens in Ireland and the North. Some of the updates were based on information provided by the BBC. The numbers were added. Note that Loyalists kill British people too!--webmaster

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