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fatal shooting by the two men, both of whom were wearing boiler suits and ski masks and carrying automatic weapons. Upon spotting Craig they opened fire, spraying the room with gunfire. Craig died instantly; a bystander pensioner was also murdered in the attack, and four other bystanders were wounded by stray bullets. The UDA claimed the killing was carried out due to Craig's "treason" and involvement in John McMichael's murder as they knew he had provided the IRA with information to successfully carry out the assassination. They apologised for the unintentional death of the pensioner. Craig was not given a paramilitary funeral, and none of the UDA's command attended it.
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intimidated owners paid protection money out of fear of Craig and his associates. It was alleged that the UDA received hundreds of thousands of pounds some of which also found their way inside Craig's pockets as part of his "commission". He was acquitted on a firearm charge and Ulster Freedom Fighters (a cover name for the UDA) membership on 18 March 1982. In 1985, Craig was brought to court after a number of businessmen decided to testify against him, with the condition that their identities remained hidden. The case fell apart when Craig's defence argued that his client's rights were violated by the concealment of the witnesses' identities.
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Craig was shot dead by two gunmen from the UDA in "The Castle Inn" (later called "The Bunch of Grapes"), a pub in Beersbridge Road, east Belfast on 15 October 1988, to where he had been lured in the belief that there was to have been a UDA meeting. He was playing pool in the pub at the time of his
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According to McKittrick, Craig's "notoriety and range of enemies meant he could have been killed by almost any paramilitary group, loyalist or republican". Described as stocky of build, he wore expensive clothing and jewellery, and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle from the proceeds of his racketeering.
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paramilitary groups, dividing up the rackets in west Belfast, and he would have been doing the IRA a favour by helping them to eliminate a high-profile loyalist such as McMichael. Craig had established links with republicans during his time in prison, and the profitable deals and exchanges of
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After his release in 1976, he set up a large protection racket and became the UDA's chief fundraiser; by 1985 he had managed to blackmail and extort money from a number of construction firms, building sites, as well as pubs, clubs, and shops in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, whose
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Dillon suggested that prior to Craig's killing, younger elements within the UDA, who were loyal supporters of McMichael, discovered (by means which Dillon did not divulge) that the RUC's anti-racketeering squad CI3 had videotaped a clandestine meeting between Craig and a member of the IRA's
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Craig was alleged to have been involved in the double killing of a Catholic man and a Protestant man on the Shankill Road in 1977. The men, both colleagues, had entered a loyalist club and were later stabbed, shot and put into a car which was set on fire. By this time the
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gunmen from a passing car on the Shankill Road on 28 April 1987. Marchant was the third high-ranking UVF man to be killed by the IRA during the 1980s. Although their inquiries revealed that Craig had quarrelled with Marchant as well as
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One builder who later assisted the RUC when they set up an anti-racketeering unit, admitted that he had paid out protection money throughout the 1980s to Craig and his henchmen. The amount of money he handed over increased each year.
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Taylor, p. 171. In 1983, the builder paid Craig and his men the sum of £3,000; in 1984 it rose to £4,000, in 1985 it went up to £4,400, in 1986 it had increased to £5,400; and by 1987 he was forced to £7,800.
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in the 1980s. Craig was himself killed by the UDA, using their cover name of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), for alleged "treason" as it was believed he had passed information to the IRA regarding
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I would say without a shadow of doubt the worst thing that ever happened to South Belfast, John McMichael and myself especially, was that Jim Craig ever had anything to do with our organisation.
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due to Craig having allegedly made Lyttle's daughter pregnant. Lyttle died of natural causes in October 1995. It was later revealed that Lyttle had worked as an informer for the
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no longer wanted him in their ranks, as they claimed they could no longer "afford him". Craig, who was ordered to leave the Shankill Road, went on to join forces with
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who had promised to testify as a key witness against Craig, was murdered by the UDA. This killing was attributed to Craig, although it was never proven.
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as "Belfast's foremost paramilitary extortionist", Craig allegedly colluded at times with the enemies of the UDA, Irish Republican groups such as the
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In 1990 Hanna was convicted of helping the IRA assassinate a fellow prison officer and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Former IRA member
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prior to their killings, the UVF felt that there was not enough evidence to warrant an attack on such a powerful UDA figure as Craig.
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In December 1987, when South Belfast UDA brigadier John McMichael was blown up by an IRA booby-trap car bomb outside his home in
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killed in October 1981 after the latter discovered Craig had been stealing funds from the UDA for his own personal use. The
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for a criminal offence unrelated to paramilitary activities. While serving his sentence at the Maze he joined the
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Craig reportedly invited RUC officers to an extravagant wedding reception held for his daughter. Author
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information between them ensured he would most likely not be a target for IRA assassination.
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to take control of the UDA prisoners inside, on account of his reputation as a "hard man".
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in Northern Ireland in the latter half of the 20th century, who was a member of the
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wrote that Craig was not intelligent but was "cunning, boastful and ruthless".
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Craig was named as an extortionist in Central Television's 1987 programme
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BBC Northern Ireland News. Broadcast 18 March 1982. Retrieved 2 June 2015
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The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder
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There was also much antipathy between him and UDA brigadier
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Dillon, in his book about the violent loyalist gang, the
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Index

James Craig (disambiguation)

Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ulster Defence Association
Racketeer
loyalist
paramilitary
The Troubles
Ulster Defence Association
Belfast
Shankill Road
David McKittrick
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Irish National Liberation Army
Ulster Volunteer Force
Shankill Butcher
Lenny Murphy
John Bingham
William "Frenchie" Marchant
South Belfast UDA
John McMichael

Shankill Road
Belfast
Ulster Protestant
Shankill Road
Maze Prison
Ulster Defence Association
Charles Harding Smith

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