Billy Wright
Billy Wright was murdered on 27 December 1997 while an inmate of the Maze Prison. He was a member of a loyalist paramilitary organisation known as the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).
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At the time of his murder he was serving a sentence of imprisonment in H block 6 in the Maze. LVF prisoners were accommodated in wings C and D of H block 6 and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners were housed in wings A and B of the same block. After Mr Wright's murder INLA claimed responsibility for the killing.
The three individuals who carried out the shooting were inmates of the Maze prison held in the INLA wings. Mr Wright was murdered while he waited in a prison van in the forecourt of H block 6 to be transported to the visitors' area.
Those who murdered him had made their way from their wing to the forecourt by a hole cut in security fencing. An improvised weapon was used to carry out the shooting.