Anyone who was familiar with the north and it's troubled history knew Willie was best case a very devious attention-seeker who sought to diminish the plight of nationalists and highlight the case of loyalism, and worst case was up to his neck in it.
He was continuously rubbing shoulders with far too many players to have been the mere innocent abroad that he and some of the self-loathers would have had you believe. Willie's posing in beret with a machine gun conflicted greatly with his "I'm a pure innocent God-fearing soul" spiel.
And there are a couple of "reverends" and DUP members up there who are/were quite willing to go with the "SF/IRA" narrative that is lapped up and repeated by the usual suspects here, while at the same time trying to distance themselves from their complicity with Ulster Resistance who knowingly armed and financed the UFF