Ex-UVF man reveals he was also an IRA member
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He believes something special. Brad basically told Haddock, you need to get rid of this guy. So that's his belief, whether that's true or not. But whatever happened, he says Haddock came at him, came at him with a knife. He says he managed, he stuck the knife in his neck and managed to thump him. Like I said, Terry was a big lad and an ex-boxer. He managed to deck him. He hit the wall. I think Haddock hit his head and then sprawled out. Might have been knocked out for a couple of seconds. Came to him, basically ran.
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A former UVF man who Mark Hannibal Haddock tried to stab to death has claimed in an interview that he's a former member of the IRA. Terry Fairfield, who now runs a bar in the UK, claims he was in both organisations and is adamant that nobody ever suggested a conflict of interest. Today I'm talking to Stephen Moore about Fairfield, about his claims and about the spectre of Haddock's return to Balthast. This is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
Stephen, we're going to talk about a guy called Terry Fairfield, who you've interviewed recently. But start by telling us, and probably for some of our listeners in the South who may not know who he is, a little bit of background.
Okay, so Terry Fairfield is a character who was in the UVF during the, I think, late 80s, early 90s. And he was part of a very notorious UVF mob in the Mount Vernon estate in North Belfast, which was led by two very well-known loyalist killers, Mark Haddock and Gary Haggerty. And Fairfield... became known as, his nickname was the mechanic. He was involved with cars, he sold cars and dealt with cars. He had a scrap yard, breaker's yard on the Antrim Road. Even though he was a Catholic man from the New Lodge. Until recently, all we knew about Fairfield was that he had fled England in the mid-90s when he'd been informing on the UVF, just like half of the Mount Vernon crowd were. 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.
Was there a big scandal around him fleeing 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...
They were afraid they were going to end up in a courtroom with him in the witness box, informing on them.
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.
Yeah.
A very high profile one. A very high profile one. I think he was back here in 2023 to give evidence in a trial.
Would he have been one of the most high profile of the kind of... Big time.
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
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:58
2
What led Terry Fairfield to be involved with both the UVF and IRA?
5:58–12:31
3
Why did Terry Fairfield flee to England in the 1990s?
12:31–26:01
4
How did Terry Fairfield's past affect his relationships in England?
26:01–27:05
5
What claims did Terry Fairfield make about his time in the IRA?
27:05–33:39
6
How did Terry Fairfield's relationship with Mark Haddock develop?
33:39–38:49
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