Even by the standards of The Troubles, Micheal McVerry had a bad reputation. Easily identifiable because he had only one hand, he lost the other hand while preparing a mortar. By the time he was shot dead by British soldiers while planting a 100lb bomb, he was wanted for questioning in relation to ten murders. Most of those murders were of Protestant fa…
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