Editing Loyalist Volunteer Force (section)

===Death of Billy Wright===
On 27 December 1997, Wright was assassinated by [[Irish National Liberation Army]] (INLA) prisoners inside the Maze Prison: [[Christopher "Crip" McWilliams]], John Glennon and John Kennaway.<ref name="Starry Plough">{{cite web|url=http://irsm.org/irsp/starryplough/99-03.04/howinla.html|title=How The Irish National Liberation Army Decommissioned The LVF|publisher=An Camchéachta - The Starry Plough|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807124351/http://irsm.org/irsp/starryplough/99-03.04/howinla.html|archive-date=August 7, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The three were imprisoned in the same block as Wright. He was shot as he travelled in a prison van. After killing Wright, the three surrendered to prison guards.<ref name="Starry Plough"/> They also delivered a statement: "Billy Wright was executed [...] for directing and waging his campaign of terror against the nationalist people from his prison cell".<ref name="Starry Plough"/>

That night, LVF gunmen opened fire on the dance hall of the Glengannon Hotel, near [[Dungannon]].<ref name="Irish News">[http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1997/12/29/ihead.htm Provos in crisis talks to try to restrain hardliners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001230124/http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1997/12/29/ihead.htm |date= 1 October 2008 }} Irish News, 29 December 1997</ref> The hotel was owned by Catholics and about 400 teenagers were attending a [[disco]] there.<ref name="Irish News"/> Three civilians were wounded and one, a former [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] volunteer, was killed.<ref name="Irish News"/> Police believed that the disco was the intended target, rather than the ex-volunteer.<ref name="Irish News"/> Witnesses said it was "an attempt at mass-murder".<ref name="Irish News"/>

Some believed that prison authorities colluded with the INLA in Wright's killing. The INLA strongly denied these rumours. It  published a detailed account of the assassination in the March/April 1999 issue of ''[[The Starry Plough (newspaper)|The Starry Plough]]'' newspaper.<ref name="Starry Plough"/>