James Nesbitt (RUC) dies: An exemplary modernising cop in the chaos of 70s Belfast
James Nesbitt who was a Detective Inspector in the RUC’s C Division at Tennent Street Station in the heart of the Shankill from 1973 onwards has died. Nesbitt was and remains most famous for leading the team which effected the arrest of one of the most notorious gangs of sectarian killers in the early history of the Troubles, the Shankill Butchers. What gained them the notoriety was less the number as much as the way in which they dispatched their …