UK: NORTHERN IRELAND: BILLY WRIGHT IS SHOT DEAD IN MAZE PRISON
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- (27 Dec 1997) English/Nat
The Northern Ireland peace process hung in the balance on Saturday after a leading figure from the pro-British loyalist movement was shot dead inside the Maze prison.
Loyalist paramilitaries warned of reprisals for the death of Billy Wright, saying it would widen its theatre of operations in the coming weeks and months.
Wright, a senior member of the outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force, was shot five times by members of the republican splinter group the Irish National Liberation Army.
Police closed roads in religiously divided west Belfast and kept watch elsewhere for possible retaliatory strikes against Catholics, while politicians appealed for calm.
The Maze prison in Lisburn, 12 miles (19 kms) southwest of Belfast, is Europe's biggest and most closely guarded terrorist prison.
It houses hundreds of extremist loyalists (mainly Protestant) and republican (mainly Catholic) inmates.
The two sides are normally carefully segregated to prevent any violence but a serious lapse in security meant republican gunmen were able to shoot and kill Billy Wright.
Prison officers said the attackers got onto a roof of the jail and fired at him while he was being escorted to the visitor's centre.
The men were thought to be from the Irish National Liberation Army, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, which wants to see Ulster reunited with the Irish Republic.
The INLA is vehemently opposed to the IRA's July 20 truce.
Official reports say the men fired from the roof hitting Wright in the back.
But a friend of Wright's - who is an L-V-F prisoner currently on parole - said the men dropped down into the yard before opening fire.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I know our prisoner were in for a visit and this boy jumped down off the roof of A-Wing and pulled the van door open and shot him four times."
SUPER CAPTION: Alec Kerr, L.V.F. prisoner and friend of Billy Wright
Wright, one of the province's most feared paramilitaries, founded the Loyalist Volunteer Force (L-V-F) in 1995.
The group wants the province to remain under British rule and is opposed to a continuing 1994 cease-fire by Northern Ireland's two main pro-British paramilitary groups.
Both groups had threatened to kill him for disobedience.
The L-V-F has been has been blamed for killing up to 20 Catholics, including women and elderly people.
Wright was serving an eight year sentence for threatening to kill witnesses testifying against him in a case unconnected with the conflict.
He had been the subject of six previous assassination attempts by republican terrorist groups and always expected to die a violent death.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I have never been afraid to die and no one knows that better than the I-R-A but there are many forms of death and many ways to die and these past few years have been a living hell to me, and let me say not because I am opposed to peace for I am not, nor am I opposed to conflict resolution, but because I am living through the death of our nation, the destruction of our way of life. I'm sick of ambiguity I'm sick of the government's lies and deceit. I will not become part of a process that's designed to ease our people into a United Ireland.
SUPER CAPTION: Billy Wright
After the shooting, three men gave themselves up without a struggle and two guns were recovered.
The killing will put the loyalist cease-fire under increased strain.
On Saturday evening, the L-V-F warned of reprisals for the death of its leader.
Security forces were put on increased alert as the authorities feared retaliatory killings.
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A cowardly sectarian murderer who murdered Catholic women and children to satisfy his vile blood lust, he always picked soft targets but in the end deserved what he got. I have no sympathy for those who murder for purely sectarian reasons, sectarian murder is a war crime.
Never charged or convicted of murder.
@brianwhyte8870 He was charged, convicted and sentenced to die in the back of a van ......
His crimes included the murder of a 7 month pregnant woman.
This shows what great things can be done when the British and the Irish work together.
True...
Can't wait to get you in jail
Oh dear the own forces he was 'loyal' to handed him over to be stiffed, the irony 😂.
Is that the same forces that had the leadership of the republican movement in their back pockets for decades?....Had the provos paranoid lol
@@bansheewhiskey In your dreams. The SAS wiped out IRA units at will. Had the provos shitting their pants. Loughgall, drumnakilly coagh, strabane, ballysillan, Gibraltar, coalisland etc etc etc...
@@bansheewhiskey That's right ya mug. Stick your head up your ass and ignore the facts. Graveyards are full of IRA vermin that tried to take on the SAS.
@@gazzanorth4373 Surprising how many ' special forces' accidentally died in car crashes abroad just after serving in the North.........
@@gazzanorth4373 wow suppose the same attitude goes for Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan. When will people realise that if it's not your country you shouldn't be there.
Loyalists calling this lowlife excuse of a man a hero and martyr is the funniest thing I've seen for a long time.
Hero
Your hero’s took over a post office in Dublin and your martyrs starved themselves and rubbed shite over their prison cell walls.
I’d choose the man who walked the lodge down drumcree any day of the week.
Vince McMahon for a long time! What since republican murders scored their biggest OWN GOAL killing 22 Catholics In omagh
@@subscriberswithnoVideos-yx3jf, regardless of scumbags in the republican movement, of which there were many, Wright was a psychopathic killer, who I believe would have been a murderer no matter where he was born.
@@jack18over Your heroes sold Es and Coke to your people ,,,,,and your heroes were riding each other in jail......give me the post office and shite upon the wall anytime......
Now with his master Satan.
Well done Crip McWilliams a true hero in Irish history.
+Robert Shaw at least that cancer victim mcWilliams suffered long & hard like the vermin he was!
Aaron Adams you will get cancer too. I'm sure of it.
Robert Shaw you have a Ulster Scots name Shaw so who's the prod is how you feel so bitter I know you're kind a half bread don't know who you belong to see you ya 50/50 McWilliams is dead as well god getting his own back cancer billy was lights out it took that prick mounths to go. remember cappagh hahahaha
Robert Shaw clkp McWilliams, good on ya nan
Robert Laughland McWilliams is also an Ulster Scots name shaw is of English origin even mcgiunness is of scotch origin one of there ancestors must of been a prod just like every prod is the descendant of Catholics
It’s a rat trap Billy and you’ve been caught.
BILLY WRIGHT HELD 7 SHOTS, HE FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE BUT THEN HE DROPPED🤣- ruclips.net/video/SPISnPsJeRE/видео.html UP THE RA
The circumstances of Wright's death was extremely dodgy on behalf of the British Government =/
Yuthink?????
Why were they dodgy
@@liamg1706 Convenient for the British Gov's political resolution of the war in Ulster, which Wright was a threat to
@@Horizon344convenient but he was a marked man anyways , most people say it was a set up because it involved guns in a prison, but it wasnt the first time republicans managed to smuggle guns into the maze
@@liamg1706 The gun + the exact timing + the attack + the route to the target being too easy + no prior history of paramilitary offensive action like this in the POW prisons + the serious threat he posed to the British Gov's political settlement = Suspicious
Good work up the INLA
Billy Wright terrorised the republican vermin of mid ulster.
@@gazzanorth4373 lol.... aye he did like fuck! Wouldn't have been so big if he hadnt the uvf uff uda ruc udr British army etc etc....
@Pat McCaliskey "Innocent nationalist population"...Boyle's bar??😅😅😅
@Pat McCaliskey from what ive been lead to believe right operated from a list handed to him by his handlers, this list was drew from known active i.r.a. members, billy wright just adopted i.r.a. tactics of killing anyone remotely related to a target,
@@whitetroutchannel More importantly he and his crew were protected by the brits and when of no more value....CRIP MCWILLIAMS!!!
This country should be ashamed of itself. That man was a national treasure.
One of the best centre half’s the game has ever seen, 500 appearances for Wolves and over a hundred caps for England and he even managed Arsenal.. And murdered by Irish men. Why? Absolute disgrace.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually, he, this one was born in Penn, Wolvehampton. Seriously. THE Billy Wright I actually played against when I was 11yo when our teachers , who knew Stan Cullis, got him and others of Wolves/England to play on their team. Surprisingly, we lost.... I was goalie, and, as my sports coach always said, "Get your body behind the ball." Which I did. 35yards out, half his normal power, a shot from a certain Mr. Wright, born in Ironbridge, blew me into the back of the net. To this day, Itreasure the pain...lol
Thats another billy wright
@@Perquse🤦♂️
@@Perqusewhoosh!
Since When was 6 occupied counties a Nation?
Dream. On you were lucky you got 3 counties back
@Enoch Powell “I remember standing at the gates of an H Block, where the blanket protest was taking place… And standing beside me was a blanket protester, whose name I don’t know and can’t remember, and he hadn’t washed in approximately a year. He had jaundice, his eyes were bloodshot and he was physically wrecked. And he was repulsive even to look at. The stench of urine and excrement round him was just in the air. But there was an atmosphere of pure history. And even as a young man I stood in awe and said to myself ‘you’re looking at history’.” These are the words of Billy Wright, one of the UVF’s most feared commanders, speaking about an encounter he had with a republican prisoner at the time of the blanket protest.
@@jacquiewalton7105 you mean Lvf?
@@chrisbridger8407 26 + 6 = 1
@@chrisbridger8407 26 counties back you spastic.
Always good to see cooperation between the british government and republican soldiers.
did you read the billy wright inquiry
Cooperation😂😂😂
So funny he said their way of life was been eroded but it was fine for his kind to erode Irish peoples in their own land???Smell of hypocricy is unreal from the gerrymanderers?
1:48 "Barrier Ahead" - How's that for some symbolism. Billy Wright was seen as the barrier to the peace process that had to be removed.
And removed he was.... in the same manner in which he removed others....
“I remember standing at the gates of an H Block, where the blanket protest was taking place… And standing beside me was a blanket protester, whose name I don’t know and can’t remember, and he hadn’t washed in approximately a year. He had jaundice, his eyes were bloodshot and he was physically wrecked. And he was repulsive even to look at. The stench of urine and excrement round him was just in the air. But there was an atmosphere of pure history. And even as a young man I stood in awe and said to myself ‘you’re looking at history’.” These are the words of Billy Wright, one of the UVF’s most feared commanders, speaking about an encounter he had with a republican prisoner at the time of the blanket protest.
A true loyalist hero.
Doesn't say much for loyalism.
He wasnt hero . He was gobshite for rich mps. Ireland and Britain could had great relationship if wasnt for border
On the contrary, he's the perfect loyalist hero. Murdering unarmed civilians and drug-trafficking were always the hallmarks of any self-respecting loyalist knuckle-dragger, didn't you know that?
Sending that piece of dogshit to Hell saved many innocent families from untold anguish, and I hope Wright's torment never ends.
@@Mrpublicimagelimited speaking of hallmarks, you missed the one big important characteristic, when it comes to loyalist murderers, a defining feature really, they were all brit agents. Rats, every one of them.
Hail hail🇮🇪 may he rust in hell
Most loyalists resemble him these days. Stiffed by the side they claim to be loyal to.
Some one was sacraficed. Billy Wright must have pissed his own people off.
He was a tout.
@@dmfub2348 touting on who? The IRA? 😂
@@Stargreened He was a British agent
@@Stargreened yeah you weapon. 🤡
Exterminated by INLA pest control services
Its amazing seeing "British Ulster" now evaporating and disintegrating after growing up in all this mayhem, and now Loyalism is just fizzling out, paving the road to a brighter borderless county. Its an exciting future for us.
To all Republicans in the chat. Do not let us down. Hold you're tongues of any profanity and vulgarity.. that isn't our job, the other side has that covered. Speak only the truth but remember, Respect the dead. Shit happens.
Why should anyone respect this murdering piece of crap just because hes dead, he didnt deserve any in life.
Loyalists are such nice people aren't they?
He was visited by his IN LA's 🤣🤣🤣🇮🇪
ha ha ha very good
😂😂😂💯✊🇨🇮
It was a professional hit Carried out with speed aggression and surprise . Crip got justice for a lot of innocent people wright murdered .his family can be proud of him as he is a hero .
@Ned he did and you prob see a lot of people who killed ended up like this .
Irish hero may he rest in peace🇮🇪 unlike billy he’s burning in hell
I'm a nationalist but crip was no saint already doing life for killing a innocent man.....one of his own too
Billy was a woman beater,at least he was consistent and loyal
Granny killer wright - god id love to have seen the cowardly little runts face when the minibus door was opened.
brian w he was cryin like a bitch from the well informed sources i have.
@Pip Smith my family member killed even more brittish than u cud imagine ha ha🏁
@Pip Smith well i personally have nothing against any religon
@@manofeire4945 what a load a fucking shite. See if your going to act the big man with your " well placed source" bollocks, try telling the truth and not make a clown of yourself. Crip even said it himself fs that you had to admire him because he was trying to fight back despite being handcuffed and trapped. The other Loyalist backed this up. Oh btw the only 1 crying like a baby was Crip himself when he knew the grim reaper was near. Cheers me right up watching that interview.
@@bm7282 Bingo!
Where are you now Billy ya evil evil bastard .
Ding dong the rat is dead. 😊😊😊
What year is this? It's missing in your production.
1997
he was right though
Filthy Loyalist muc.... Tiochfaidh ár lá..........
ogrebattle22763 state killing
Ogrebattle No 1 operator
its funny how every time your day comes its usually the english helping achieve it lmfao 😂😂😂😂
@@whitetroutchannel Filthy puke....
@@whitetroutchannel Aye because the English don't want the loyalists
Billy's not much good under ground but better than over it lol
BILLY WRIGHT HELD 7 SHOTS, HE FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE BUT THEN HE DROPPED🤣- ruclips.net/video/SPISnPsJeRE/видео.html UP THE RA
Pretty sure I smell rats here meself
smell your armpits
Billy was in the way, so he had to pay.
His handler must have wrote that speech for him.
Must have "wrote" - oh my God...
@Ned sure it's well known the rat touted on his own for cash. Scum.
@@iansoutryer3189 just seeing this. Is there a problem you illiterate fuck?
@Ned ffs open your eyes. It has been well documented. Himself and swinger fulton were more than just gay lovers. He was a paid informer.
@Ned the truth is obviously upsetting you. He was a dirty tout. His own co-operated with the INLA to get him done. I'm sorry that hurts you but it's the truth. Not much of a hero now. I heard he pissed himself and cried for his mummy too when confronted. That makes me laugh.
Shot dead by British intelligence, a true patriot! God bless you Billy! 😙😀❤
He died like a girl
Inla killed him britush hamded him over
He seemed sincere,pity about the soft targets he attacked,was it worth all the suffering on both sides ?
It's no longer Ireland 🇮🇪 anymore were EU
Yeah he was sincere alright...about drug dealing killing unarmed teenage girls and raping young fellas In prison...
"Good for you Billy, good for you son"
Hahahaha from.Dublin 🇮🇪up the INLA 🇮🇪 burn in hell billy boy 😂😂😂😂
@@northeuropeantaxpayer7097 Tal loud and proud! 💯✊🇨🇮
If he lived next to you banging out his drugs you wouldn't have said that..
He die like a plg
Hassan Ali do you like a bit Piggy
Definitely...squealing like a pig...😁
And all his words have rang true 👍👍
Aviation Iceman .And Mick Roach is still taking shite
@@mytoiletshitehouse who ?
@@aviationiceman9549 Mick Roach . The Orange bastard troll who has been on both Loyalists and republican RUclips videos since RUclips has started. He is a bit like yourself. Only not as stupid.
He died a holy man.. 😄
That is FUNNY😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
He died with holes in him....lol
Can fit 4 in the back of a black taxi 🤣
Hahahahaha
@@michaelahern9883 that what he ment
As barbaric as rat's deeds were against innocent Catholics, those same actions hastened republicans to the table to settle for peace
It takes two to tango fella...
Billy Wright sleep good, U nothing.
I can clearly see that you have the British flag in the background of your speech if England is within your heart and that is where you feel you belong it would be a good place to start a new life ireland is one large piece of rock in the Irish see that cannot be disputed therefore ireland can only be one country it is time to stop fighting with each other and sometimes killing each other don't let your children carry on with this fight come together as one country and to help each other to build ireland up and make something off your country and be proud of it they will always be different religions and different ways of life in Ireland like there are in most countries in the world but you should learn to accept those differences and move forward together. Some of the street bands that I have seen in the north of Ireland and in the south of Ireland they're both really good I hope that I could get you to listen that you will stop the fighting and killing each other for the sake of your own people in Ireland... if World War 3 comes with Russia and the Western world because of Ukraine I want Ireland kept out of it there should be no more Irish blood spelt in any wars ireland in general is a peaceful country it does not want to be pushed into war.. Ireland has never invade anybody else's country ireland must be left to live in peace....
How did they smuggle a gun into the maze?
someone baked it into a cake along with a filing iron hid in a sausage
@My Toilet Shitehouse 😂😂😂😂
The guards gave it to them
Think it was a hot air baloon got it in ..lol
Mo, s dirty hand and Clinton smile
Crip wacked him who ironically looked like him and also had the same name ...you couldn't make it up
Great job up the INLA
Another brave Irish man carrying out the orders of his British handlers
@@paulthfc3308 All the loyalists born in the 6 counties are Irish so wtf are you on about?????
@@hermanngoulhorn581 that's why I said ANOTHER Herman , why don't u read the fucking thing before chirping in
Good job crippers 🇮🇪up the INLA
Better times
Awwww. Billy the Tout.
He was a Loyalist hero, and had he lived Sinn Fein wouldn't be in power, hence why they set him up,thats how much difference one man would have made to the peace process, say what you like about Billy Wright but he had some serious clout in Northern Ireland. For one man he was some man.
He was a murdering serial killer and the best thing that could have happened to him was an early death
Well they're in power now so suck it up.
@@hermanngoulhorn581 In a non functioning government. So suck it up 👍
Stormont never properly functioned you clown, why so bothered that the taigs have power now!???
🇮🇪
Ask paddy Maine , founder of the SAS
@Emerald Boxing latest score from Gibraltar SAS heroes 3 IRA child killers 0
@@peteskinner7709 you might wanna check your history and read the CAIN Sutton Report, or more likely, get someone to read it for you, the numbers are all there in black and white and it ain’t good reading for the like of you, 😂
He wasn’t even born in Northern Ireland 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂
Women and children and old people.
Job Crip
On a sidenote: he had got quite a pretty girl friend: 0:48
Billy you got nailed
BILLY WRIGHT HELD 7 SHOTS, HE FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE BUT THEN HE DROPPED🤣- ruclips.net/video/SPISnPsJeRE/видео.html UP THE RA
He told the future and the government needed him out for the good Friday agreement true loyalist
Mo mowlam too happy.. Blair brown shame on labour
Where are you right then Billy right now I am sure that on that circuit really do not want to stir it up today Easter Monday but if they do Helen down nation for them and the so-called “as a police force well Emily home today almost certainly not the best way
A great day
Orders of MOW
There's alot of his activity but not over there it came here.
Cromwell haha
Wright to the end 🇬🇧✊🇬🇧
At the end...he was wright out of luck...
He went wright down to the burning furnace in the end
Crip mc williams republican legend
I'm not afraid to die ha ha shiting himself
Rip Billy BOY uv THE PEOPLE ARMY gbnfnoey
ha ha up the ra
Bring it then boy, put up or shut up.
Here you ya ugly fenian fucker remove or your ugly face is going up on every Loyalist page on social media. Someone will know you. Chap chap
😂😂😂😂 nidge is in trouble with the huns
@@CK-dd7eq classic lol
Bring it kid
0:49 There's that shit music again...
Rest in peace young man taken to soon....
Rotting in hell as we speak.
He's hardly resting in peace...
That’s not how you spell “not soon enough”
@enoughalready8088 your right it should be "too soon" my bad their were still french insurgents in irland befor he left us ....too soon
Alec are you a gazelle in your last life? You chewing the cud?,or you just pig-sick..
One thing that right
Free cow ahhhh free cow and doze cherry picking trucks ahhhhh free cow le freak de sheik
how Tae feck
Least we forget
My piles bleed for you billy 🤣
Well gud riddance ya dog
Eating spuds again 🤑
Its all coming to an end now 🤣🤣🤣🐎💩🇬🇧 TAL32 🇮🇪
A TRUE LOYALIST HERO OF ULSTER, RIP BILLY.
john o,neil im sure the east tyrone brigade weren't sayin that one nite in cappagh!! lol.
funny the 10 ballbags at kingsmill hadnt much to say either lol
Aaron Adams. Who is your da. We all know. Do you.
Aaron Adams. Who's mummy fucking now?
@Dherynia Flaharta if it was`nt for the ruc protecting yer taig arses there would`nt be any cappagh, the uvf would have burned it tae the ground. fgau ns.
A TRUE LOYALIST WARRIOR RIP
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loyalist scumbags sagging wee boys Billy the bum boy brigade fucking rat basterd up the INLA 😁😁🇮🇪🇮🇪👌
A drug dealer and a tramp that shit himself when he got shot
No he wasn't a warrior, he was a vile sectarian murderer and a coward, killing Catholic women and children would testify to that.
Sir William Wright I Salute You Sir !
LOL
If he lived next to you banging out his drugs you wouldn't be saluting him ..
If only this man was today !!!!!
Define way of life? In Ireland it's shite weather, worse economy, drinking & river dance. That's why anyone with any sense left. Including my grandparents
Your grandparents were brother and sister though, so it was the best decision.
Where did they go...?? Worse economy..??? Think you got that wrong...
God bless you Billy gone but not forgotten
Alan Beggs still begging ?
The one and only gave in Stevenson away back to England you troll
Alan Beggs your very intelligent adding an e to someones name away a take your face for a shite ya turkish delight ya sir hi
Gave in Stevenson .Turkish delight ? Shit talking fool.
Scumbag rat very holy man bang bang 👌👌👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I laid flowers at this mans grave. He lies next to his mother at beautiful Drumcree. I had been supporting my orange brothers and sisters at Drumcree for a number of years. Over from Scotland GBNF 🇬🇧💙🇬🇧
If it kicks off again let's hope the Republicans don't ignore Scotland. Your lot liked to cheer on the carnage from the sidelines, maybe it's time to bring it to your doorstep. It might wake you fuckers up.
Craig he was coward who killed grannies and a coward when he was put down like the dog he was.
You're a sad little hobbyist, that's all.
Hrs not buried in Drumcree..so you're telling pork pies..
@@michaelahern6821 aye ok. Nae bother Bertie
No fishing in uk waters lol 😂
Rest in peace, fellow loyalist. ..no surrender. .
Fellow Coward.
No surrender
Hahahahaha 🐎💩🇬🇧
Died on his knees though.
What a loyalist hero wright til the end god bless you r soul billy wright murdered by the enemies of ulster
Ulster isn't a country...
@@michaelahern6821 Ulster is British our 6 counties ya black fk
GOD SAVE THE KING 👑
Billy wright true son of ulster
Alan Beggs fuckin right sir
If he was a true son then there is no hope for the planter stock in Ireland.
Born in Wolverhampton you knob.
Ulster isn't a country...
I have never been afraid to die ! Lol 😆, He cried NO , NO, DIDN'T, THE LAST WORDS OF THE KING MI5 RAT.
God how right was he.. The boogeyman to republicans.
Now he is just a ghost ....LOL
Till he met his own boogeyman...
It will come down to it believe me , eu border not ours lol 😂
Economic border in the Irish Sea its all over ,thanks from Dublin 🇮🇪
NO SURRENDER GOD BLESS HM KING WILLIAM THE THIRD
How's the sea border going buffoon🙄
He had it coming
Coward
Now if someone could take care of Adair