Later Years
In 1974, Hull was shot and injured in an attack which Conflict Archive on the Internet states was carried out by other Loyalist paramilitaries, possibly the Ulster Volunteer Force. Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack however state that the shooting was the work of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who wanted to take down two high profile UDA members who nonetheless had little involvement in the group's military activities. Hull had been in the Crumlin Road glazier shop belonging to Jim Anderson when a gunman entered and shot both men.
By the time of this attack Hull's role with the UDA had diminished considerably. With the LAW having also disappeared Hull would play little role in public life from then on.
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