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The Brutal Life of Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy

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The Brutal Life of Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy

Lenny Murphy became one of the most feared killers of the Troubles.

As leader of the notorious Shankill Butchers, Murphy and his gang brought terror to the streets of Belfast through a campaign of abduction, murder and extreme violence.

But Murphy's brutality eventually created enemies on both sides of the conflict.
Even figures within loyalism reportedly came to see him as a dangerous liability.

So how did Lenny Murphy become so feared—and did people from his own world ultimately help bring about his death?

This is the brutal story of the man behind the Shankill Butchers.

#LennyMurphy #ShankillButchers #TheTroubles #UVF #NorthernIreland #TrueCrime
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20 Comments

@JohnCheevers-b8s 3 weeks ago

This brings back memories, i can remember my friend crying outside his house in Alloa street l where is brother Archibald was being waked, he was killed by Noel Shaw AKA noogie, we would play football in Avoca street in the lower oldpark of north belfast and a car would pull up abd call him over, i asked who is that and he would reply my brothers friends who vowed to look after me and that was the shankill butchers !! Im now 63 yrs living in the USA, that was crazy childhood.

@saoirse1916 2 weeks ago (edited)

My father was almost a victim of the butchers when he was walking along the Antrim road they chased him in their black taxi after the shot fired out the window missed, my dad threw himself down a steep embankment and from that day until his death he developed a terrible stutter.

The shankil Butchers were condemned by many loyalists and had him set up. Murphy was an unhinged lunatic, what him and his gang were doing was not in the name of any loyalists organisation.

@thecircledk8597 4 weeks ago

The Butchers shouldn't really be considered part of the conflict/troubles... Murphy would have done this even without the conflict he was just a psychopathic murderer who hid within the conflict

@jackpayne4658 3 weeks ago

Psychopaths really are an alien species living among us. They naturally gravitate toward situations of conflict which allow their impulses to find free expression.

@johncunningham5503 4 weeks ago

Live by the sword

@Anthony-h5s8o 3 weeks ago

Never mentiond the romper rooms, the black taxis used to kidnap the victims, how he tried to poison a whole prison wing of his comrades just to get one man... they murderd more than the Yorkshire ripper at around the same time but in a shorter time span..but hardly anyone in England has any idea who he was..

@EndeavourMorse-z1r 4 weeks ago

Even today walking up the Cliftonville Road on a dark night 🌙 can be be somewhat unnerving as if the terror of yesterday has left an imprint. This was part of what was known as the Murder Mile in Belfast during the 1970s 💀🌙

@Aria-wl2ve 4 weeks ago

They used the conflict as cover. Lenny was just a bully and a psychopath.

@DavidEdwards-e6m 13 days ago

I heard that at his first inaugral kill he pulled out his own tools and went to work, the 2 witnesses were shocked!!!

@PH-Golf 6 days ago

Before I left home and moved to Belfast for college, someone gave me a book to read. The Shankill Butchers. A horrific account of multiple brutal murders. Needless to say I never really warmed to Belfast despite the rose tinted view that Tourism NI would have you believe.

@timchaney8184 3 weeks ago

How come Elvis is in Murphy's gang.

@Markanderson.23ART 4 weeks ago

One of the sickening things, is that he is buried close to one of his victims

@DavidEdwards-e6m 13 days ago

Its been postulated that because he had a catholic surname it made him have to go to extremes to prove his hatred of the catholics!!!
His story is worth a read and as said in this video there is a question over Murphy simply being a natural born killer in a place that hid his real motives.

@loneranger5928 4 weeks ago (edited)

Good video 👍. He was a scumbag, who liked violence psychopath. The troubles,was ideal for him to continue with his killing.
The Police would know what is happening but overlooked let it continue.

@johnshooter4763 4 weeks ago

I went to school with a 16 year old female Murphy in Ballybean.

@johncunningham5503 4 weeks ago

Pure bad

@johnshooter4763 4 weeks ago

At 6:25, does anyone where that pic was taken and what year?

@TrevorPickford 4 weeks ago

When some of these animals died and went on to meet their master in Hades, the shops and business people closed up in respect and large numbers of so called "protestants" followed their coffins in respect. On the headstone of Murphy read "Here lies a soldier" of the UVF. Shocking isn't it???????????

@SeaBeardsBeard 4 weeks ago

Almost everyy single paramilitary depiction in this video is the UDA/UFF. The video is about the butchers who where largely UVF. The imagery is all over the place here.