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Within a few months he was arrested on a hijacking and arms charge and sentenced to six years in Crumlin Road jail and then in Long Kesh. "I knew I was no ordinary criminal. In the H blocks I joined the protest by refusing to wear prison clothes. I knew a lot of IRA men in those days, like Willie Gallagher from Strabane who bombed the British Legion hall. I remember listening to Bobby Sands make a speech in the next compound, though I never met or spoke to him". He was released after serving three and a half years and emigrated to Scotland. That only lasted three months before he had an exclusion order served on him and he returned to the province. In 1980 he was held on suspicion of one murder, two attempted murders and five counts of conspiracy to murder. He has survived bomb and bullet ambushes from republicans The RUC told him that one of the attacks on him was by INLA chief Dominic 'Mad dog' Mc Glinchey.
Extracts from an interview taken in 1995 "If I die, I die believing what fellow unionists believed in. I believe wholeheartedly that our country is now in a crisis and that somehow, someway, the so called loyalists have been used to enforce a form of politics that is leading Northern Ireland into a United Ireland."
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Billy legally adopted his sister's son from Limerick in the Republic. She had married a man from Tipperary and was going to America to make a new life. 'They wanted the young lad brought up in Ireland and asked me to look after him. By the way I have two other sisters who are married to Catholics here in Ulster". Billy Wright's family have been victims of IRA violence; his uncle, Jim, a member of the Salvation Army was riddled with 31 bullets by the IRA; his brother-in-law and his father-in law were also shot dead. "It wasn't fair, why should loyalist people stand idly by? There had to be retaliation against the Sinn Fein/IRA axis" .I ask him about operations like Greysteel and Loughinisland. "I know it is a cruel thing to say but when you consider when they happened it was after atrocities and slaughter by the IRA. The Shankill bombings had just occurred and the loyalist people had reached breaking point. I don't believe that Greysteel or Loughinisland was murder. The nationalist people had given succour and votes to the scum of the Sinn Fein/IRA . I honestly believe that there would be no ceasefire from the IRA if there had been no retaliation from the loyalist paramilitaries. I hope that no one will die again in this generation or the next but there's no way we're going on the road to a United Ireland".
