The UVF set up an illegal checkpoint which looked like a regular UDR or British Army checkpoint . The UVF members manning the checkpoint used a red torch to signal to people to pull over . Fergus Magee ( 28 ) was getting a lift home with Desmond Rogers ( 54 ) when they were pulled over by the illegal checkpoint . After stopping a masked man wearing army fatigues and carrying an AK-47 assault rife walked along the row of parked cars until he reached Desmond Rogers ' car and fired a number bursts into the vehicle killing Mr Rogers instantly and fatally wounding Fergus Magee . John Lavery ( 27 ) who was in the car behind Rogers & Magee tried to reverse out of the way but the UVF gunman ran over to him and fired several shots into his car and he died a few hours later in hospital . The two men in the front car ( Desmond Rogers & Fergus Magee ) were both Catholic civilians , John Lavery in the back car was a Protestant civilian . The UVF later issued an apology for killing John Lavery because he was a Protstant , because the UVF 's primary target throughout their 24 year armed campaign ( 1966 - 1994 ) were Irish Catholic civilians . As Billy Wright was the commander of the UVF at this period it 's believed he was involved in at least authorizing the attack and perhaps even planning it or being directly involved . The day before the attack on the 13 November the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade killed four Protestants in separate incidents around Belfast , first they killed a UFF member William Kingsberry and his stepson Samuel Mehaffey who was a member of the Red Hand Commando at a house in Lecale street , then brothers Stephen & Kenneth Lynn were shot & killed while they were renovating a house , the previous owner who was a Loyalist paramilitary was the intended target . It 's possible the Craigavon killings were in retaliation for the four IRA killings the previous day . A UVF member Vicky Ahitty from Portadown was sentenced to life in October 1992 for the killings along with the murders of Kevin and John McKearney at their butcher 's shop in Moy , County Tyrone , on 3 January 1992 . Kevin McKearney was the brother of three former Provisional IRA Volunteers Hunger Striker Tommy McKearney , Pádraig McKearney a high ranking Volunteer killed at the Loughgall Ambush by the SAS in 1987 and another brother Sean died when a bomb he was transporting blew up prematurely in 1974 . Kevin was the only brother not in the IRA . Two other serious attacks like this were carried out earlier in the year by Billy Wrights UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade . On the 3 March 1991 the 1991 Cappagh killings three Provisional IRA members & a Catholic civilian were shot dead , then later on in the same month three Catholic civilians were killed including two young teenage girls in the 1991 Drumbeg killings
1991 Cappagh killings
1991 Cappagh killings
1991 Craigavon killings