PublishedArrow, July 1990 |
ISBN9780099738107 |
FormatSoftcover, 416 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.5cm |
'This was the ultimate way to kill a man'
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 horrifying 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 troubled and violent context from which it sprang.
