Departure
Smith spent another week in hospital after which he again returned to his Belfast home. This time however notorious gunman Davy Payne was sent to his house with another hitman and the two ordered Smith to leave Northern Ireland. He was taken to the airport the following day and left for England, leaving Tyrie as sole leader of the UDA. Smith settled in the town of Skipton in Yorkshire where he worked as a lorry driver, before dying in 1997.
During Dáil Éireann debates in 2005 he was named as a "self-confessed British intelligence agent".
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