William Moore (born c1949) was a terrorist/serial killer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a member of the brutal Shankill Butchers, a Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Terrorism, as defined by the United States Department of Defense, is the calculated use of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Main language English Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th... The Shankill Butchers were a group of Ulster Volunteer Force members in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who abducted Catholics, usually walking home from a night out, tortured and/or savagely beat them, and killed them, usually by cutting the throat. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ...

In 1972 William Moore started hanging out with 20-year-old Lenny Murphy, who would become the leader of the Shankill Butchers. Moore was then aged 23 and had a few previous convictions for petty crime. He had worked at a butcher's shop from which he had stolen various knives and meat-cleavers. He then started working as a taxi-driver. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Lenny Murphy Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy, who commonly went by the name Lenny Murphy (March 2, 1952 - November 16, 1982), was a loyalist terrorist from Belfast, Northern Ireland who was the leader of the Shankill Butchers. ...

Beginning in 1975, the gang started abducting and murdering Catholics. Moore would drive around Catholic neighbourhoods in his taxi looking for prospective victims. Murphy and the others would bundle victims into the back of the taxi and beat and torture them, before Murphy would finally drag them out into an alley and cut their throats. The following year Murphy was arrested and subsequently convicted of a firearms offence, and to divert suspicion from himself he ordered the Butcher slayings to continue. They did so, with Moore now acting as the leader. The gang also killed several rival loyalists as a result of petty feuds, in addition to planting a bomb in Catholic neighbourhood that killed a 10-year-old boy. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be or The Establishment. ...

After a victim escaped alive, the Shankill Butchers were rounded up by police and most of them broke down and confessed, although they were too terrified to implicate Lenny Murphy. They stood trial in February 1979. William Moore pleaded guilty to the most murders, eleven, and was sentenced to life.

However, Moore was released in 1998. The Good Friday Peace Agreement of that year meant that anyone convicted of a terrorist offence could be released. Moore is today a free man in Belfast, although he remains at the top of an IRA and INLA "hit list". 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was a major step in the Northern Ireland peace process. ... The acronym IRA may refer to: Irish Republican Army See also List of IRAs Irish Republican Army, the self-proclaimed Army of the Irish Republic that fought the Irish War of Independence against British rule, 1916 - 1921 Irish Republican Army (1922-1969): Originally the Anti-Treaty or Republican side in... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was formed on 8 December 1974 as the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was formed the same day) by Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of...

It has been alleged recently that Moore is involved in loyalist drug-dealing in Edinburgh. In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be or The Establishment. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic) is the second-largest city in Scotland and the countrys capital city. ...