The Gunmen: Billy Wright (Part Two), the birth of the LVF and the prison assassination
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The Gunmen: Billy Wright (Part Two), the birth of the LVF and the prison assassination

2025-08-13

Billy Wright, 'King Rat’, founded the LVF to defy the UVF. That led to imprisonment. Incredibly Wright was gunned down inside the Maze maximum security prison. How did the INLA get a gun inside the jail and what was the LVF’s bloody response?


Ciarán Dunbar is joined by the Belfast Telegraph security correspondent, Allison Morris.


This podcast was first released in August 2022.

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