Editing Shankill Butchers (section)

==Other activities==
Moore, Bates, and McAllister shot and wounded a member of the Windsor Bar UVF unit a few hours after the murder of Noel Shaw in November 1975.<ref>Dillon, p. 102</ref> Murphy and Moore shot dead Edward McQuaid, a Catholic man, on the Cliftonville Road on 10 January 1976. On 9 February 1976, Murphy and three of his gang shot and killed two Protestant men, Archibald Hanna and Raymond Carlisle, wrongly believing that they were Catholics on their way to work across the Shankill. Bates was involved in a gun attack on a bar in Smithfield, not far from the Shankill, that killed several people, both Catholics and Protestants, on 5 June 1976.<ref>Dillon, pp. 151–64</ref> Other Protestants who met their deaths at the hands of the gang included two UDA men. The first was Thomas Easton, who made the mistake of becoming involved in an argument with McAllister, and was ambushed by McAllister at the end of the evening and killed with a breeze block to the head on 21 December 1976. McAllister's guilty plea to a manslaughter charge was accepted by the Crown.<ref name="Easton">McKittrick pp. 694–95</ref> The second was James Moorehead, a former police reservist,<ref name="RUC Reservist">{{cite web|url=http://www.irishnews.com/articles/540/5860/2009/5/18/617807_3816854882508216Sud.html|title=Irish News|website=irishnews.com}}</ref> beaten to death by McAllister, Bates and Moore in the toilets of the Windsor Bar on 29 January 1977. McAllister received a minor punishment shooting for the murder of Easton.<ref name="UDA">Dillon, pp 190–96</ref>

Members of the gang also carried out a bombing mission on the Falls Road that killed a 10-year-old Catholic boy on 10 April 1977.<ref name="McMenamin">McKittrick p. 715</ref> Murphy's brother John was heavily involved in the latter incident, along with "Mr. A". The gang used the services of the UVF's leading bomb expert [[James Watt (loyalist)|James "Tonto" Watt]] to plant the device, although Watt was not a member of the Brown Bear platoon.<ref>Dillon, p.184</ref> Several of the Butchers, including John Murphy, were questioned about a serious assault in April 1977 in Union Street, near Belfast city centre, on a man they believed wrongly was a Catholic. John Murphy received three years' imprisonment for his part in this incident.