Gusty Spence was one of modern Belfast's earliest Loyalist gunmen, helping start the group which killed the first three victims of the Troubles. He was also the first of the hard men to repudiate ...

Gusty Spence, who died on September 24 aged 78, was the founding father of the modern Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), but later renounced violence to seek a political solution in Northern Ireland.

By reducing its ranks to a ‘skeletal’ size, the UVF is following in the footsteps of the Provisional IRA, a senior loyalist ...

The former loyalist paramilitary leader Gusty Spence has died in hospital. The 78-year-old had been ill for some time. In the 1960s, he founded the modern Ulster Volunteer Force, an organisation ...

Gusty Spence is regarded as one of the founders of loyalist paramilitarism. Almost 10 years later in October 1994, he was chosen to announce to the world that the main loyalist paramilitary ...

AUGUSTUS GUSTY Spence, the man who resurrected and reformed the Ulster Volunteer Force, died yesterday in a Belfast hospital after being admitted almost two weeks ago. He was 78.

Feared Loyalist killer turned peacekeeper Gusty Spence has died in Belfast at the age of 78. A feared killer after he helped to re-invent the Ulster Volunteer Force in the 1960s, Spence went on to ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Gusty Spence, a former paramilitary leader turned peacemaker, died on Sunday at the age of 78. One of the founding members of the pro-British Ulster ...

Gusty Spence's family continue campaign over Peter Ward murder. THE family of UVF founder Gusty Spence have launched a fresh bid to clear his name over the murder of a Catholic teenager 50 years ago.

The granddaughter of a woman who was killed by the UVF has said Gusty Spence was not a peacemaker.

THIRTY-FIVE years ago, a young Catholic barman was shot dead in a Belfast pub. THIRTY-FIVE years ago, a young Catholic barman was shot dead in a Belfast pub. Gusty Spence, the leader of the UVF at ...

The family of the former UVF leader Gusty Spence is planning a funeral with the emphasis on his British army past rather than his time in the paramilitary group.