Terry Fairfield
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He says that's completely untrue as well.
So there's stuff on the internet.
If you could Google Terry Fairfield, you'll see, oh yeah, he's the mechanic.
He supplied cars to the UVF.
He supplied the car for Loughin Island.
And he says he wanted to clear that up because he said that's just not... So what he says about the car is he briefly owned it, but didn't own it at the time?
Yeah, because he had this garage.
He said the car was outside his house.
He would buy cars and then send them.
He actually was, at that time, was sending them down to Dublin where the engines would be broken up and he would make a few quid.
So this car, the only thing that was valuable about this car, it was a triumphant acclaim, which I don't even know what that is, not being a car person, but it had a Honda engine.
He said, but the only thing that made this car valuable was the registration.
It had a reg that was worth money.
So he had it sitting outside his garage, but he wasn't in at the time.
He had a wee fella who worked with him and he sold, couldn't get hold of Terry, it was days before mobile phones.
He thought the car was for sale.
He sold it to a guy and he says, sold it to a guy in Rathcool in North Belfast and got 25 quid for it.
Terry says, I think I got, he thinks he got 15 pounds for the sale of this car and that was it.
He then gets a call after the Lachan Island attack
and he's from the police saying you own this car you need to come and speak to us and he says what what are you talking about he says oh yeah and as he puts it there are six dead bodies in here and this car was used in the attack you get so Terry says he went straight down to Tennant Street police station and I think it's just off the Shankill and