Terry Fairfield
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The difference with Fairfield, Fairfield wasn't informing as like a special branch.
He wasn't a special branch informing.
He didn't have handlers as such.
He was giving tidbits of information, he says, to, I think, CID officers.
He was telling, you know, oh, such and such is going to happen or, you know, such and such is under threat.
You want to watch, you know, that kind of thing.
That's what he says.
I'm not saying that that's...
And you can never really get to the bottom of these things.
The truth of them.
Because, of course, it is a secret world.
But I mean, the story that we did at the weekend in Sunday World and on Crime World now is that Fairfield had obviously left, left Good England.
He actually says that he was suicidal when he left because he had no life, because his family, because he'd grown up in a nationalist family, in a nationalist area, Ardoyne and then New Lodge.
area of North Belfast.
His family just basically disowned him.