Larry Marley

Laurence Larry Marley was a Provisional Irish Republican Army member from Ardoyne, North Belfast. He was one of the masterminds behind the 1983 mass escape of republican prisoners from the Maze Prison, where Marley was imprisoned at the time, although he did not participate in the breakout. Marley was described by British journalist Peter Taylor as having been a close friend of Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams. Marley was shot dead by an Ulster Volunteer Force unit two years after his release from the Maze. His shooting was in retaliation for the killing of leading UVF member John Bingham the previous September by the Ardoyne IRA.

Lawrence Marley was born in Belfast in July 1945 and was raised a Roman Catholic. He grew up in the Ardoyne area in the north of the city and attended Holy Cross Boys Primary and St. Gabriels Secondary schools. He became involved with the IRA in the early stages of the Troubles, and was a member of an active service unit in the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade until his arrest in late 1972. At the time he was married to Kate and the father of three sons. He was sent to Long Kesh . In March 1975, he, along with nine other IRA men, escaped from Newry courthouse, where he was on trial for an attempted escape from Long Kesh. He went on the run but was recaptured in Belfast in 1977. Charged with possession of weapons, Marley was sentenced to anotheryears in Long Kesh.

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