 He was allegedly a part of the UVF team that exploded a car bomb in Monaghan on 17 May 1974 which killed seven people.William Wesley Somerville was born in about 1941 in Moygashel, County Tyrone to a Church of Ireland family with three brothers and two sisters.He was a textile worker by trade but also a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), which was a locally recruited infantry regiment of the British Army in Northern Ireland.