The Shankill Butchers by Dillon Martin

Author:Dillon, Martin [Dillon, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2009-11-23T23:00:00+00:00

Murphy had exhibited a lack of concern about the presence of Protestants when he attacked the lorry carrying workmen. Then, as on this occasion, no action was taken against the gang for killing members of their own community. Perhaps the UVF leadership did not move against them because three members of the leadership were directly involved in the planning of the operation.

A tragic dimension to the loss of innocent life that evening was Bates’s remark that the 40oz bottle of vodka was the fee for carrying out the slaying. The conflict, it would seem, had caused human life to be thus devalued.

While Murphy remained in prison waiting for his trial to begin the Butchers maintained a low profile. The Chlorane Bar killing had been the result of a murder deal, one of the few, between the Brown Bear and the Windsor Bar units, and Bates had been involved in the deal. Moore and McAllister were aware of this. For whatever reason, they now decided to undertake a killing independent of Mr A. and Mr B.

After 10.00P.M. on 1 August Moore and McAllister set out in a borrowed black taxi in search of a Catholic victim. Moore chose the Cliftonville Road as their hunting ground. They drove from the Shankill to the Oldpark Road and along Manor Street to the Cliftonville Road. The same route had been taken by Moore and Murphy when they killed Ted McQuaid. On this occasion McAllister sat in the rear of the vehicle with a hatchet concealed inside his coat. Moore, as usual, had the task of searching for lone prey.

As Moore and McAllister were making their way towards the Cliftonville Road, forty-nine-year-old Cornelius Neeson was leaving a bingo club in North Queen Street, where he worked as a bingo caller. Earlier that night he had kissed his wife goodbye as he left their home in Clifton Crescent. His wife remembers he was in a happy mood. As he returned home along the Cliftonville Road he cannot have been aware of the danger of the dark streets.

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