The Sunday World has been given what is claimed to be details of an internal UDA probe purporting to have been carried out by senior loyalists Jim Spence has left Belfast Reporter Hugh Jordon reads a report handed to him by members of B-Coy of the UDA on the Shankill Road Jim Spence's estranged wife Maggie Former UDA brigadier Jim Spence yesterday publicly denied he was a state agent after a report claiming to be from the terror group was circulated in Belfast. The Sunday World has been given what is claimed to be details of an internal UDA probe purporting to have been carried out by senior loyalists – who were once Spence’s strongest supporters – which has found him guilty of “crimes against the loyalist people”. It is claimed the report was drawn up as the result of an internal UDA investigation, however this has been strongly denied by Spence.
The document makes a number of allegations against Spence, which have not been independently verified. And in a chilling threat, it concludes that if the former UDA Brigadier and one-time Military Commander for West Belfast ever shows his face back in Belfast, he will be shot on sight. However, last night Spence hit back at the claims and accused former “exiled former friends with an axe to grind” of being behind a smear campaign.
Spence slipped out of Northern Ireland last July, days after the government announced a new investigation into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane, a 39-year-old lawyer,.