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==List of victims== The following is a list of known and suspected victims of the Shankill Butchers. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Date !Name and age !Status ! |- |2 October 1975||Marie McGrattan (47)||Catholic civilian||Shot dead at her workplace β Casey's Bottling Plant.<ref name=sutton75>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1975.html Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1975]. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref> |- |2 October 1975||Frances Donnelly (35)||Catholic civilian||Shot dead at her workplace β Casey's Bottling Plant.<ref name=sutton75/> |- |2 October 1975||Gerard Grogan (18)||Catholic civilian||Shot dead at his workplace β Casey's Bottling Plant.<ref name=sutton75/> |- |2 October 1975||Thomas Osborne (18)||Catholic civilian||Shot dead at his workplace β Casey's Bottling Plant. Died 23 October 1975.<ref name=sutton75/> |- |25 November 1975||Francis Crossin (34)||Catholic civilian||Found badly beaten and with his throat slashed in an entry between Wimbledon Street and Bisley Street, middle Shankill.<ref name=sutton75/> |- |30 November 1975||Noel Shaw (19)||UVF member||Found shot dead in a taxi in Nixon Street, off the Shankill Road. The killing was the result of an internal dispute.<ref name=sutton75/> |- |10 January 1976||Edward McQuaid (25)||Catholic civilian||Killed in a [[drive-by shooting]] while walking along the Cliftonville Road.<ref name=sutton76>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1976.html Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1976]. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref> |- |6 February 1976||Thomas Quinn (55)||Catholic civilian||Found with his throat slashed on a grass bank off Forthriver Way.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |9 February 1976||Archibald Hanna (51)||Protestant civilian||Shot, along with Raymond Carlisle, while sitting in a lorry in Cambrai Street. They were assumed to have been Catholics.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |9 February 1976||Raymond Carlisle (27)||Protestant civilian||Shot, along with Archibald Hanna, while sitting in a lorry in Cambrai Street. They were assumed to have been Catholics.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |22 February 1976||Francis Rice (24)||Catholic civilian||Found with his throat slashed in an entry between Mayo Street and Esmond Street, Shankill Road.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |2 August 1976||Cornelius Neeson (49)||Catholic civilian||Found beaten to death at the junction of Manor Street and the Cliftonville Road.<ref name=sutton76/> A hatchet was used in the attack. |- |30 October 1976||Stephen McCann (20)||Catholic civilian||Found with his throat slashed and shot near the community centre off the Forthriver Road.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |20 December 1976||Thomas Easton (22)||Protestant civilian||Found beaten to death behind St Andrew's Church on the Forthriver Road. The killing was the result of a personal dispute.<ref name=sutton76/> |- |31 January 1977||James Moorehead (30)||UDA member||Found beaten to death in Adela Street. The killing was the result of a personal dispute.<ref name=sutton77>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1977.html Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1977]. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref> |- |3 February 1977||Joseph Morrissey (52)||Catholic civilian||Found badly beaten and with his throat slashed near the community centre off the Forthriver Road.<ref name=sutton77/> A hatchet was also used in the attack. |- |30 March 1977||Francis Cassidy (43)||Catholic civilian||Shot and found with his throat slashed on a grass verge off Highfern Gardens.<ref name=sutton77/> |- |10 April 1977||Kevin McMenamin (7)||Catholic civilian||Killed in a bomb attack on a [[Republican Clubs]] [[Easter Rising]] commemoration parade, Beechmount Avenue.<ref name=sutton77/> |- |10 May 1977||Gerard McLaverty (19/20)||Catholic civilian||Found in a back alley off Emerson Street. He had been beaten and stabbed, and his wrists had been slashed. He was the only victim of the Shankill Butchers to survive his injuries. |- |17 July 1982||Norman Maxwell (33)||Protestant civilian||Found beaten to death on waste ground off Alliance Road.<ref name=sutton82>[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1982.html Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1982]. [[Conflict Archive on the Internet]] (CAIN).</ref> He had suffered from a learning disability. |- |29 August 1982||James Galway (33)||Protestant civilian||Shot dead and found buried on a building site in [[Broughshane]].<ref name=sutton82/> He was suspected of being a police informer. |- |5 September 1982||Brian Smyth (30)||UVF member||Poisoned in a loyalist club before being shot from a passing motorbike in Crimea Street.<ref name=sutton82/> The killing was the result of a personal dispute. |- |24 October 1982||Joseph Donegan (48)||Catholic civilian||Abducted, tortured and beaten to death; found in an entry off Brookmount Street.<ref name=sutton82/> |}
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