Brian Robinson (loyalist)

Brian Robinson (c. 1962 - 2 September 1989) was a loyalist from Belfast, Northern Ireland and member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) who was witnessed murdering a Catholic civilian. His death as a result of an undercover British Army unit is unique as it is one of the only deaths from the alleged shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland which involved a loyalist victim.

Robinson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland to Rab and Margaret Robinson, and brought up a Protestant on Disraeli Street in the staunchly loyalist Woodvale district of the Shankill Road. It is not known when he became a member of the local Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). He held the rank of volunteer in its "B Company", 1st Battalion Belfast Brigade. By the time of his death he had moved to Forthriver Crescent in the Glencairn estate, an area immediately northwest of Woodvale.

Robinson and fellow UVF member Davy McCullough were travelling on a motorbike where Robinson was the passenger and gunman on 2 September 1989 in Belfast's Crumlin Road close to the Irish nationalist area of Ardoyne. Upon seeing Paddy McKenna, a Catholic civilian man who was walking along the street, Robinson opened fire, hitting McKenna a total of 11 times and killing him. Unbeknownst to the two UVF members, an undercover British Army unit was in the area. Giving chase in a car, the soldiers collided with the motorbike, forcing both men off the road. Robinson was shot twice, then twice more in the back of the head by a female soldier standing over him. He was 27. Upon hearing the news of her son's death, Robinson's mother Margaret suffered a fatal heart attack. The two were buried on the same day.

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