Not sure if the death of top scumbag William Moore was covered on p.ie yet but a photographer using a long lens was beaten badly at his funeral. So issues of press freedom, the serial killing scumbag William Moore, and the sensationalist press coverage of their deeds arise.



A gang of about six men attacked a photographer covering his funeral on Thursday afternoon. Alan Lewis of the Northern Ireland Press Photographers Association said that he had been told that the man was surrounded and beaten.
He said that the photographer had been using a long lens to get pictures of the funeral and was attacked when he got out of the car. Some camera equipment was also taken. "I gather it's not life threatening but it was a severe beating he took,"..
A related article goes into some depth on the Butchers, and the non appearance of Moore at the Historical Enquiries Team. There is no conspiracy to silence suspected yet, he appears to have been physically ill for some time.

The attention these people got has always sickened me a little since the media makes so much money from this. There has already been at least one movie on the topic, numerous sensational books, and all the usual newspaper and pulp histories. Why are people so fascinated by this serial killing stuff?

[psni] were today investigating the sudden death of one of the leaders of the notorious Shankill Butchers gang, which carried out a series of savage sectarian murders of Catholics in the 1970s... William Moore (60), who was jailed for life in 1979 for his part in the gang’s sadistic killings, was found dead in his north Belfast home yesterday.
Officers were called to his flat in the loyalist Mount Vernon estate [on the shore road] at 7.45am yesterday. The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated, however his death is not thought to be suspicious
Shankill Butcher William Moore found dead in flat was due to face questioning - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk