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Wesley Somerville

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405:. As the bomb tilted on one side, clumsy soldering on the clock used as a timer caused the device to detonate prematurely, blowing the minibus apart and instantly killing Somerville and Boyle, who were hurled in opposite directions. Having taken the full force of the blast, both men's heads were blown to pieces and their limbs torn off. Burnt beyond recognition, one torso was completely charred. Bassist Stephen Travers was later shown a photograph of the body of one of the dead bombers and he described it: "It didn't have any head, just a black torso, no head, legs or arms". What little that remained of Somerville was later found in a field one hundred yards away from the scene; the only identifiable body part was his severed arm bearing the tattoo "Portadown UVF". 483:
Moygashel parents, if they wanted their children to grow up like Somerville. Travers in 2016 offered to meet those responsible for the banner to justify Somerville's glorification. In 2017 a man was arrested after removing and stealing the banner. A Moygashel residents' spokesman stated the people of Moygashel were in support of the banner and it would be re-erected upon its return. The spokesman also said that the banner had been erected every year previous without any incident. Relatives of Somerville's victims had requested the
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cemetery. The popularity of the Miami Showband across the religious divide and the revulsion at the nature of their murders had initially raised questions about whether Somerville's and Boyle's funerals should receive the full paramilitary treatment but ultimately they did and both funerals attracted
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Together with his younger brother John James and another man, Somerville was charged with the kidnapping of two bread men. The kidnapping charge was connected with a bomb attack at Mourne Crescent in Dungannon. Raymond Murray alleged that he had accompanied Robin Jackson when the latter shot Catholic
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Speaking in 2014, Stephen Travers, a survivor of the Miami Showband massacre, spoke out about the erection of a banner in Moygashel's main street honouring Somerville. Travers expressed his hope that the banner would remain permanently in order to shame those who erected it and to pose a question to
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Twelve hours after the attack, the UVF leadership issued a statement identifying the dead men and justifying the killings. Both Somerville and Boyle were given UVF paramilitary funerals. As Somerville's remains left his home in Moygashel Park, a volley of shots were fired over the coffin and a group
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On 30 July 2005, a mural and memorial plaque commemorating Somerville and Boyle was unveiled in the Killycomaine estate of Portadown, where the latter had grown up. One hundred people, 16 loyalist bands, and a UVF military guard of honour were present at the unveiling following a parade through the
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take down the banner. However, when a new banner was later made and erected, the PSNI stated the banner was legal as no crime had been committed. This was heavily criticised by Stephen Travers. A Moygashel Residents' Association spokesman said the community were happy with the new banner, rejected
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Following the explosion, the remaining UVF gunmen opened fire on the five bandmembers, who had been blown down into the field below the road's level. Three were shot dead: trumpeter Brian McCoy, lead singer Fran O'Toole and guitarist Tony Geraghty. Bassist Stephen Travers survived, but was gravely
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Houses of the Oireachtas, Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings (The Barron Report). December 2003.
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concluded that the principal perpetrator of the Miami Showband attack had been Robin Jackson. Although Jackson had been taken in and questioned by the RUC following the attack, he was released without having been charged. In the 1990s,
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when its minibus (driven by trumpeter Brian McCoy) was flagged down by the armed men, who ordered the bandmembers to get out and line up beside a ditch facing a field. While a gunman took down their names and addresses, Somerville and
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on 17 May 1974. The blast killed a total of seven people. Ninety minutes before, units from the UVF's Belfast and Mid-Ulster brigades had detonated three car bombs in
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In his hometown of Moygashel, Somerville is honoured by a memorial plaque on the gable wall of a house in Moygashel Park. The plaque states "He died for Ulster".
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James McDowell, Thomas Crozier, and John James Somerville (brother of Wesley) were convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment inside the
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was published in the 2003 Barron Report which was the findings of an official investigation commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice
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Somerville was a member of the Mid-Ulster UVF unit which carried out the ambush of the popular Dublin-based cabaret band,
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the notion Somerville was a terrorist and proclaimed him as very much a part of the Protestant culture of Moygashel.
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Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Kays Tavern, Dundalk. p.99
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Report of the Independent International Panel on Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland, October 2006. p.112.
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Report of the Independent International Panel on Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland, October 2006. p.68
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family with three brothers and two sisters. He was a textile worker by trade and served as a member of the
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Report of the Independent International Panel on Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland, October 2006
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stated in his affidavit that Somerville was part of the UVF team that exploded a no-warning
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on 28 October 1973. Although Campbell's widow picked Jackson out as the killer at an
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at Buskhill, County Down, where Somerville was killed in a premature bomb explosion
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on 27 July 1975. Somerville was photographed alongside Jackson at Hanna's funeral.
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under the driver's seat of the minibus. Martin Dillon suggested in his book,
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A Very British Jihad: collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland
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of 50 men wearing combat uniforms saluted the coffin as it went past to
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Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh Hachette Books Ireland p.166
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estate. The plaque reads that the two men were "killed in action".
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Collusion in the South Armagh/Mid-Ulster areas in the mid-1970s
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uniforms had set up a bogus military vehicle checkpoint on the
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The Miami Showband Massacre-A survivor's search for the truth
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The Committee: Political Assassination in Northern Ireland
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Deaths by improvised explosive device in Northern Ireland
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He was allegedly a part of the UVF team that exploded a
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William Wesley Somerville was born in about 1941 in
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Moygashel, County Tyrone
County Down
Ulster Volunteer Force
Mid-Ulster Brigade
Troubles
Ulster loyalist
Ulster Volunteer Force
Mid-Ulster Brigade
Troubles
Ulster Defence Regiment
The Miami Showband
County Down
deaths of three of the bandmembers
Harris Boyle
car bomb
Monaghan
17 May 1974
Moygashel, County Tyrone
Church of Ireland
Ulster Defence Regiment
Ulster loyalist
Ulster Volunteer Force
Portadown
UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade
Billy Hanna
Robin Jackson
Lurgan
Glenanne gang
County Armagh

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