Friends say he suffered fatal head injuries in accident on concrete steps
The 57-year-old best pal to Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, had been living in Ayr in recent years and pals say he suffered a catastrophic head injury during an accidental fall on concrete steps at the weekend.
She said: “People really need think before they speak. Yes Samuel Skelly McCrory has passed away [but] through a fall down concrete steps. Not murder or the rest of the stories that people [are] chin wagging. In his youth, McCrory had formed a racist skinhead gang along with future UDA brigadiers Adair and 'Fat' Jackie Thompson.
Six years later, in 1998 while serving time for the failed murder plot on Gillen and Lynch, and with the peace process bubbling under the surface, McCrory was one of two UDA leaders chosen to meet the then Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam at the Maze. The talks were held in a bid to salvage delicate peace talks.
McCrory was filmed back in Belfast being interviewed by actor Danny Dyer as part of his ‘Deadliest Men’ TV series, visiting his former West Belfast neighbourhood where he had built a formidable reputation.
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