Shankill butchers: Mr A's real identity

[dsd]

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Just re-reading M .Dillon's excellent book, The Shankill Butchers. Think it was written in late 1990s, so a long time has passed.
One of the main characters was a Mr A, who was never charged. My question is has Mr A been 100% identified ?
Some say it was his now dead brother John but if you read other sources they say it isn't.

 

[josef1878 2.0]

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[danny la rouge]

Shankill Butchers - Wikipedia

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Just re-reading M .Dillon's excellent book, The Shankill Butchers. Think it was written in late 1990s, so a long time has passed.
One of the main characters was a Mr A, who was never charged. My question is has Mr A been 100% identified ?
Some say it was his now dead brother John but if you read other sources they say it isn't.

I don’t know what you’d count as 100% evidence, but

Lenny Murphy's brother was real boss of Shankill Butchers gang, says new book

The Shankill Butchers' true leader has been named in a graphic exposé on the UVF and its most notorious sectarian murder gang.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don’t know what you’d count as 100% evidence, but

Lenny Murphy's brother was real boss of Shankill Butchers gang, says new book

The Shankill Butchers' true leader has been named in a graphic exposé on the UVF and its most notorious sectarian murder gang.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The book on which that article is based would actually seem to say that Mr A and John Murphy were not the same person:

 

[Lurdan]

In a newspaper article in 2009 Dillon wrote :

Mr A, contrary to previous reports by some journalists, is still alive and living in the stomping ground the Butchers made their own, namely the Shankill area of west Belfast.

(Belfast Telegraph 24 May 2009 archived here).

Mr A's identity would be newsworthy, and Dillon is still alive and active, so it would be reasonable to conclude that Mr A is too and that the legal reasons for not naming him still stand.

 

[DaveCinzano]

In a newspaper article in 2009 Dillon wrote :

(Belfast Telegraph 24 May 2009 archived here).

Mr A's identity would be newsworthy, and Dillon is still alive and active, so it would be reasonable to conclude that Mr A is too and that the legal reasons for not naming him still stand.

Also, Dillon states:

Then there was Mr B, who was in fact Lenny’s older brother, John.

 

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[Jay Park]

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[BriBri]

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Why did you remove my comment? This thread is about the identity of Mr A. I posted up his identity. Why have the thread at all, if you don't wish for him to be named?