A sister of loyalist killer Billy Wright has claimed her brother was a paid agent of British Secret Service, according to a new book.
Angela Wright said her brother was ordered by British agents to carry out his atrocities – some estimates suggest he was behind up to 50 murders.
She said that Wright had wanted 'out' after his first imprisonment in the Maze for UVF-linked activity.
However, she said when he was 'deported' from Edinburgh in 1980, secret service agents took the opportunity to recruit him.
She claimed that Wright told her "the government isn't going to let me out. I'm in for life".
Her claims are included in a new book entitled Trigger Men by Martin Dillon, author of The Shankill Butchers and The Dirty War.
"I knew then and from later things he said to me that he did s*** things for the British. I know it... believe me, I just know it," she was quoted as saying.
Dillon also claimed in his new book that Wright had made a deal with the British to move him into hiding in England in the months preceding his assassination in the Maze in December 1998. His sister alleged that British agents colluded in the murder out of fear that his "dirty work" on their behalf would be revealed.
