UDA chief Sam 'Skelly' McCrory said he would answer for his crimes in death

The response to the news of the sudden death of former UDA chief Sam "Skelly" McCrory has been vast and varied.

In an interview, McCrory said: “I came over [to Scotland] to look after my partner. I came here on a Sunday and I nursed him until he died on January 10, 1999. I was in love with the guy and the guy was in love with me. We worshipped each other. In an interview with Danny Dyer for his "Deadliest Men" TV series, McCrory revealed: “I grew up seeing British soldiers coming into my country, houses burning, buses being blown up, rioting, shootings.

Ten years after supplying milk bottles to rioters and stoning the authorities and neighbouring streets, McCrory was deep in the sense of vicious, loyalist paramilitary action. “I had a strong belief that what I was doing was right. I didn’t do it to fill my pockets full of money. I risked my freedom and I risked my life. We were the businesses, there was no one better than us.”

McCrory had in his possession an AK47 assault rifle, Browning double barrel magazine, an SMG double magazine and a sledgehammer, and he said, “going on a military operation to eliminate high level IRA targets”. McCrory, like his mentor and best friend Adair, was exiled to Scotland after a loyalist feud and the pair spent their time watching their backs, still aware they lived in danger. But McCrory said he accepted what could happen to him.

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