FUNERAL OF BILLY MCMILLEN (APRIL 1975)

Billy McMillen was known as ‘the wee man’. He was the Official IRA commander in Belfast. It was engaged in a feud with the INLA. Six weeks after I took his wedding picture I was photographing his funeral. He had been shot outside a paint shop as he waited for his wife. That was the way of the news photographer. One day you’d see extreme happiness, the next utter despair. Billy McMillen was forty-eight years old.