During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Northern Irish Catholics dead. Their leader was Lenny Murphy, a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname led to his persecution as a child for which he took revenge on all Catholics.
Not for the squeamish,
The Shankill Butchers
is a horrifyingly detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal history—a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the political and violent context from which it sprang.