On his release from jail in 1982 he resumed both his killing and his racketeering. This brought him into conflict with a leading Loyalist gangster, and UDA leader, Jimmy Craig. Craig secretly passed information about Murphy’s movements to the Provisionals. On 16 November 1982, Murphy had just stopped his car outside his girlfriend’s Belfast home when a van pulled up in front of the car. Two gunmen jumped out and shot him twenty-six times.
