Loyalist terrorist in Northern Ireland, assassinated in the Maze Prison in 1997 by the INLA. He was the leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), a breakaway faction of the Ulster Volunteer Force which did not support the UVF's ceasefire. Known as King Rat, Wright lived under death threats from the UVF as well as republican groups. He was very prominently involved at the Drumcree standoff in 1996 and 1997