Background
Wilson was born in Fleet Street in Sailortown, Belfast, the youngest of seven children in a Catholic nationalist family.
Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
Wilson was born in Fleet Street in Sailortown, Belfast, the youngest of seven children in a Catholic nationalist family.
He was elected as a Republican Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland in 1969. He was also a Belfast City Councillor. They had been stabbed to death.
Wilson"s throat was cut.
He was interred in Belfast"s Milltown Cemetery. Loyalist John White was later convicted for his part in the murders.