Billy Wright, known as 'King Rat', had been a senior member of the UVF in Mid-Ulster, but broke with the organisation over its 1994 ceasefire, later forming the LVF By David McCullagh and Fiachra ...

A loyalist killer has claimed the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) believed Billy Wright, the organisation’s leader in Mid Ulster, was a state agent. Laurence Maguire told BBC NI’s Spotlight ...

Irish officials were appalled that ­Northern Ireland prison authorities had granted loyalist terror boss Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright his own wing at the Maze prison ...