Fellow UDA member Glenn Barr believed that Payne on one occasion had saved his life I owe my life to Davy Payne because there had been a plan within a section of the UDA to have me killed because I had been part of a delegation which had gone to Libya to have talks with Colonel Gadafy sic in 1974 . Davy Payne went to those people and told them I was under his protection and I have no doubt this saved my life . On 21 July 1972 , Payne , along with some of his UDA associates , allegedly carried out the double killing of Rosemary McCartney , a young Catholic singer from West Belfast , and her boyfriend , Patrick O'Neill . Earlier on this same day , the IRA had exploded 22 bombs in Belfast , killing nine people , and injuring 130 . One of the dead included a member of the UDA , William Irvine ( 18 ) . This day became known as Bloody Friday . The couple had been stopped at a UDA roadblock and taken to one of the " romper rooms " for a " grilling " ( interrogation ) which was presided over by Payne , who like his companions , wore a mask
Bloody Friday
Bloody Friday (1972)
Davy Payne