letter read, "Please let the next generation live normal lives". This line was quoted during a speech given by Colm Cavanagh, vice-president of The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland on 3 March 2006 to The Department of Education. His friend and former UVF colleague Billy Mitchell, who was strongly critical of trauma counselling and a psychological approach to former paramilitaries, suggested that Giles' suicide had been prompted by a "trauma workshop" Giles had attended in South Africa. This was in contrast to Taylor, who believed that Giles killed himself because of the remorse he felt about his involvement in UVF violence. Giles is commemorated, along with other prominent Loyalist paramilitaries, in the controversial UVF song Battalion of the Dead. References External links BBC Eyewitness 1957 births 1998 suicides Giles, Billy Giles, Billy People convicted of murder by Northern Ireland Loyalists imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Northern Ireland Progressive Unionist Party politicians Alumni of the Open University Suicides in Belfast Suicides by hanging in Northern Ireland 1998 deaths