1. Wesley Somerville was a serving member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
12 Facts About Wesley Somerville
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Wesley Somerville was killed, along with Harris Boyle, when the bomb they had loaded onto the band's minibus exploded prematurely.
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Wesley Somerville was allegedly a part of the UVF team that exploded a car bomb in Monaghan on 17 May 1974 which killed seven people.
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William Wesley Somerville was born in about 1941 in Moygashel, a village in the south-east of County Tyrone, to a Church of Ireland family with three brothers and two sisters.
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Wesley Somerville was a textile worker by trade and served as a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
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Wesley Somerville was a close friend of senior UVF member and British agent Robin Jackson, who assumed command of the Mid-Ulster Brigade upon the murder of Hanna.
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Wesley Somerville was a key player in the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of loyalist fanatics comprising the Mid-Ulster UVF and members of the security forces.
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Together with his younger brother John James and another man, Wesley Somerville was charged with the kidnapping of two bread men.
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Former Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Patrol Group officer John Weir stated in his affidavit that Wesley Somerville was part of the UVF team of murderers that exploded a no-warning car bomb in Monaghan on 17 May 1974.
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Wesley Somerville was a member of the Mid-Ulster UVF unit which carried out the ambush of the popular Dublin-based cabaret band, The Miami Showband.
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James McDowell, Thomas Crozier, and John James Somerville were convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment inside the Maze Prison.
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Relatives of Wesley Somerville's victims had requested the PSNI take down the banner.