Tommy Lyttle

Who was Tommy Lyttle?

Tommy "Tucker" Lyttle, was a high-ranking Northern Irish loyalist during the period of religious-political conflict known as the Troubles. A member of the Ulster Defence Association - the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland - he first held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and later was made a brigadier. He served as the UDA's spokesman as well as the leader of the organisation's West Belfast Brigade from 1975 until his arrest and imprisonment in 1990. According to journalists Henry McDonald and Brian Rowan, and the Pat Finucane Centre, he was a Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch informer.