Lenny Murphy

Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy, who commonly went by the name Lenny, was born on 2nd march, 1952 Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Shankill Road is the arterial road leading through west Belfast, Northern Ireland. It runs through the predominantly loyalist working-class area known as the Shankill. He was an Ulster loyalist and was also a part Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) from Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was a political group that supports the preservation of Northern Ireland and opposes a united Ireland. The Ulster loyalism was a movement group who were Ulster Protestants who did not want to become part of an autonomous Ireland (Catholics). Lenny Murphy had pathological hatred for Catholics which he would constantly stressed in all his conversations (Martin Dillon quoted), which he would refer them as ‘Scums and Animals’. Lenny was a heavy drinker and would spend most of his nights out drinking at the local bars. Lenny Murphy had so much hatred for the Catholics that he got a tattoo of King William of Orange on a horse and the Red Hand of Ulster.
With his brother John he soon formed a gang of more than twenty men that would become known as the Shankill Butchers, one of his lieutenants being William Moore. The Shankill Butchers is the name given to a loyalist gang, many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The group conducted paramilitary activities in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the 1970s. Lenny Murphy became infamous for being the leader of the Shankill butchers gang. The group was infamous for their late-night abduction, torture and murder of random Catholic civilians. On 24–25 November 1975, Murphy adopted the method that gained the Butchers infamy, which was abducting, torturing and throat slashing.
Lenny used city's sectarian geography to identify likely targets that he could kill. Murphy roamed the areas nearest the Catholic New Lodge in the hope of finding someone (likely to be Catholic) to abduct. His first