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Tommy Lyttle
Tommy "Tucker" Lyttle (c. 1939 – 18 October 1995), was a high-ranking Ulster loyalist during the period of religious-political conflict in Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles". A member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland - he first held the rank of lieutenant colonel and later was made a brigadier. He served as the UDA's spokesman as well as the leader of the organisation's West Belfast Brigade from 1975 until his arrest and imprisonment in 1990. According to journalists Henry McDonald and Brian Rowan, and the Pat Finucane Centre, he became a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch informer.〔Henry McDonald, ("Sordid Death of Top Gun" ), guardian.co.uk; 1 October 2000; retrieved 29 March 2011.〕〔〔(The Pat Finucane Centre: ''Beyond Collusion: The UK Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane'' ); retrieved 29 March 2011.〕
==Ulster Defence Association==
Lyttle was born in Belfast and grew up in the loyalist Shankill Road area in a Protestant family as one of five children. In the late 1960s, he worked as a machinist in Mackie's Foundry in the Springfield Road. He later became a bookmaker.〔〔 At the age of 18, he married Elizabeth Baird, by whom he had three sons and two daughters.〔("In the Name of My Father" ), independent.co.uk, 30 March 1996; retrieved 29 March 2011.〕
In 1969, the religious-political conflict known as "The Troubles" broke out; two years later in 1971, he became a founding member of the legal loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Defence Association.〔The Ulster Defence Association remained a legal organisation from its founding in September 1971 until 10 August 1992 when it was proscribed by the British Government.〕 According to his daughter, Linda, he joined the UDA after a Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) bomb exploded at the Balmoral furniture showroom in the Shankill Road in December 1971, killing four people, including two babies. Lyttle's wife and two daughters had been close to the scene of the explosion but were unhurt.〔
In 1972, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the UDA's "C" Company, 2nd Battalion Shankill Road; in 1975 he rose to the rank of brigadier, having command of the West Belfast Brigade.〔 He had taken over the brigade from Charles Harding Smith, the former leader of the UDA, and its first commander following the organisation's formation. Although Andy Tyrie was the UDA's overall commander (from 1973–88), brigadiers such as Lyttle enjoyed a large degree of autonomy and regarded the areas under their control as "their personal fiefdoms".〔Taylor, Peter (1999). ''Loyalists''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. pp. 199, 209; ISBN 0-7475-4519-7.〕 He was a member of the UDA's Inner Council and served as the UDA's spokesman. His youngest son, Thomas "Tosh" Lyttle also joined the UDA.〔
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