Alan McCullough was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland into a loyalist Ulster Protestant family, the youngest of six children. He had four sisters and a brother, Kenny. He was brought up in Denmark Street in the Lower Shankill Road area. His father William "Bucky" McCullough was a prominent UDA member gunned down by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) outside his home on 16 October 1981 when McCullough was three months old."Family fears for fate of missing loyalist". The Guardian. Rosie Cowan. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 12 May 2011 It was believed by many inside the UDA that he had been set up by UDA fundraiser and racketeer Jim Craig.Wood, p.352
