Terry Fairfield

In fact, he told me once himself that he'd be in a meeting with 10 UVF guys from Mount Vernon and you'd be looking around and six of them would be informers.

So the whole unit was riddled with informers and Fairfield then fled to England.

No, I think just that, you know, he left when his cover was kind of blown and it all got away.

But basically what had happened was he was being blamed for a lot of things and he was told by police that he was going to be

by Mark Haddock and Gary Haggerty were going to set him up.

He was going to be shot.

He was going to be murdered.

And I think that they were going to use him either because they thought he knew too much about their activities, which were many, or they thought he was informing and...

Which is effectively what they ended up, well, what Hagerty ended up doing, that very thing, in a witness box, telling stories about other loyalists, you know, as a supergrass.

A very high profile one.

A very high profile one.

I think he was back here in 2023 to give evidence in a trial.

I remember doing a story maybe 10 years ago, maybe less than that, when he was just coming...

his whole supergrass we got a whole list of all the charges and I've never seen that I mean how he found the time there are hundreds of you know dozens of murders and you know attempted murders and stabbings and beatings and robberies and shootings and you know just all every crime you could think of that he was involved he was involved in

Well, he got the best deal because he managed to, you know, kind of like a confessional.

He went into the confessional box, confessed to everything, which was over 200, you know, 200 offenses, serious offenses where normally you would expect somebody to go to jail and never come out.

And he only got was five years, you know, and then when he came and he's out, he's got the identity living in England.

So, you know, he's disappeared and got away with it.

He basically got away with it.

Yeah.