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Harry Stockman, also known as "Harmless" (born c. 1961)〔("Man critical after stabbing in Tesco". ''Belfast Telegraph''. Anne Madden. 21 April 2011 ) Retrieved 10 October 2012〕 is a Northern Irish loyalist and a senior member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) paramilitary organisation. He serves as the commander of the UVF 1st Battalion Shankill Road and is allegedly the second-in-command on the UVF Brigade Staff. His uncle was Robert "Basher" Bates, a member of the notorious Shankill Butchers gang. At a news conference in June 2009, Stockman read out a decommissioning statement issued by the UVF and Red Hand Commando (RHC) leadership in which it claimed the organisations had put all of their weapons out of use. Stockman survived a murder attempt in April 2011 when he was stabbed repeatedly outside a crowded supermarket by another UVF man as a revenge attack stemming from an internal dispute. ==Early years== Stockman was born in about 1961 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to a Protestant family and was brought up in the Greater Shankill area. Some of his family members were closely affiliated with militant loyalism, his uncle having been Robert "Basher" Bates, a member of the UVF-linked Shankill Butchers gang which carried out a series of cut-throat killings against Catholics in the mid-1970s. The gang operated out of the "Brown Bear" pub on the Shankill and was led by Lenny Murphy. Although the group deliberately cruised the streets in a black taxi and abducted innocent Catholic men before driving them to Shankill Road alleyways where their throats were viciously slashed, it also killed Protestants as well. Bates was gunned down in 1997 by a relative of one of his Protestant victims after his release from prison.〔Taylor, Peter (1999). ''Loyalists''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. pp.152-153〕 Stockman joined the UVF Belfast Brigade on an unknown date. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Stockman (loyalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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