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Wesley Somerville
William Wesley Somerville (c. 1941 – 31 July 1975) was a Northern Irish loyalist, who held the rank of lieutenant in the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force's (UVF) Mid-Ulster Brigade during the period of conflict known as "the Troubles". He also served as a member of the British state's legal Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR). Somerville was part of the UVF unit that ambushed the Irish cabaret band The Miami Showband at Buskhill, County Down, which resulted in the deaths of three of the bandmembers. Somerville was killed, along with Harris Boyle, when the bomb they had loaded onto the band's minibus exploded prematurely. His brother, John James Somerville (a former UDR soldier) was one of the three men convicted of the murders of bandmembers Brian McCoy, Fran O'Toole and Tony Geraghty.
He was allegedly a part of the UVF team that exploded a car bomb in Monaghan on 17 May 1974 which killed seven people.
==Ulster Volunteer Force==
William Wesley Somerville was born in about 1941 in Moygashel, County Tyrone to a Church of Ireland family with three brothers and two sisters. He was a textile worker by trade but also a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), which was a locally recruited infantry regiment of the British Army in Northern Ireland.〔(Report of the Independent International Panel on Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland, October 2006. pp.110, 112 ) Retrieved 24 October 2011〕 On an unrecorded date he joined the illegal Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF); he was a member of the Portadown unit of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade. This brigade had been founded in 1972 by Billy Hanna, who appointed himself its first commander. Somerville was a close friend of senior UVF volunteer Robin Jackson,〔Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Kays Tavern, Dundalk. p.99〕 who assumed command of the Mid-Ulster Brigade upon the shooting death of Hanna. Jackson was alleged by many investigative journalists, including Joe Tiernan and Paul Larkin, of having been the man who had shot Hanna outside his home in Lurgan on 27 July 1975.〔Tiernan, Joe (2000). ''The Dublin Bombings and the Murder Triangle''. Ireland: Mercier Press. pp.110-111〕〔Larkin, Paul (2004). ''A Very British Jihad: collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland''. Belfast: Beyond the Pale publications. p.182〕 Somerville was photographed alongside Jackson at Hanna's funeral.〔McPhilemy, Sean (1998). ''The Committee: Political Assassination in Northern Ireland''. Boulder, Colorado:Roberts Rinehart Publishers. p.316 ISBN 978-1-57098-211-8〕
Somerville was a key player in the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of loyalist extremists comprising the Mid-Ulster UVF and rogue members of the security forces. This group mainly operated in the County Armagh and mid-Ulster areas. The Pat Finucane Centre in collaboration with an international panel of inquiry headed by Professor Douglass Cassel (formerly of the Northwestern University School of Law) has linked the Glenanne gang to 87 sectarian killings directed against (usually upwardly mobile) Catholics.〔(Report of the Independent International Panel on Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland, October 2006 ) Retrieved 24 October 2011〕〔(Collusion in the South Armagh/Mid-Ulster areas in the mid-1970s ). Retrieved 24 October 2011〕 According to Martin Dillon, Somerville's name was included on a Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch list of terrorism suspects but despite this, no effort was made to remove him from the UDR.〔Martin Dillon, ''The Trigger Men'', Mainstream, 2003, p. 25〕
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