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James Craig (loyalist)
James Pratt "Jim" Craig (c. 1941 – 15 October 1988) was a Northern Irish loyalist, who served as a fund-raiser for the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and sat on its Inner Council.〔Wood, pp. 119-20〕 He also ran a large protection racket from the West Belfast Shankill Road area, where he lived. Described by journalist David McKittrick as "Belfast's foremost paramilitary extortionist",〔McKittrick, David. ("Exposure sealed fate of notorious activists" ), ''The Independent'', 24 August 2000; retrieved 17 March 2011.〕 Craig allegedly colluded with republican organisations such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), providing them with information on key loyalists which led to their assassinations.〔 Aside from controlling rackets and extorting protection money from a variety of businesses, it was claimed that Craig also participated in killings.〔
He was accused by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) of setting up the assassinations of some of their key members by IRA hit squads, such as Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy, John Bingham, and William "Frenchie" Marchant in the 1980s. Craig was killed by the UDA, using their cover name of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), for alleged "treason" as it was believed he had passed information to the IRA regarding South Belfast UDA brigadier John McMichael, who was blown up in an IRA booby-trap car bomb in December 1987. Craig was shot dead in The Castle Inn, a pub in Beersbridge Road, East Belfast. An elderly pensioner was also killed by stray gunfire.〔
==Ulster Defence Association==
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