The UDA in Sandy Row were also involved in " rompering " , a nickname given by the UDA to the slow , torture-driven killings of kidnapped victims . On 30 August 1972 members of the group , as well as leading Woodvale Defence Association figure Ernie Elliott , kidnapped Catholic former British soldier Patrick Devaney before taking him to Sandy Row where he was hung upside down from a beam and beaten with hammers before being shot in the back of the head . The same group was responsible for one of the early UDA-on-UDA killings in December 1972 when members of the group shot and killed Ernie Elliott after a drunken argument about weapons that Elliott 's men had loaned to the southern contingent . According to later eyewitness reports Elliott had entered a UDA club in the area and began waving a gun about , with the weapon discharging during a struggle when others attempted to disarm him . Another " rompering " death was also carried out in the area in July 1974 when a 32-year-old Protestant single mother Ann Ogilby was killed by a UDA women 's unit based in the area . Ogilby 's interned boyfriend William Young was the local commander of the Donegall Pass UDA which came under the South Belfast UDA 's auspices . Ogilby had spread rumours about Young 's wife , who was a member of the Sandy Row women 's UDA , that resulted in her fatal punishment beating . The commander of the Sandy Row women 's UDA unit was Elizabeth " Lily " Douglas of City Street . She was among the ten women convicted of Ogilby 's murder . The unit was disbanded by the UDA following the killing
Ann Ogilby was killed
Murder of Ann Ogilby
UDA South Belfast Brigade