Former UVF godfather Gusty Spence dies

FORMER Ulster Volunteer Force leader Gusty Spence has died, aged 78.

Former UVF godfather Gusty Spence dies

Spence was convicted of murder in the 1960s but later renounced violence and announced the 1994 Combined Loyalist Military Command ceasefire.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment after his gang shot dead a Catholic barman and wounded two others as they left a pub in Belfast in 1966. He served 18 years.

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