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No regrets
A senior police source once described him
as someone who was driven by "pure and absolute bigotry".
Gregg was also infamous for an assassination attempt on Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams in the early 1980s. An act for which he expressed no
remorse.
In fact, when asked by the BBC in prison if he regretted anything about
the shooting, his reply was "only that I didn't succeed."
He wasn't a popular man with the UDA's breakaway "C" company and had
been the subject of several assassination attempts as a direct result of
his backing for the decision to expel Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair from the
UDA.
Hail of bullets
Gregg had two main passions in life,
Glasgow Rangers Football Club and playing the drum in Cloughfern
Young Conquerors Flute Band.
And it was the former which in the end cost him his life, as the gunmen
who carried out the attack capitalised on the fact that he had a routine
of going to Scotland on the ferry from Northern Ireland to see his
beloved Rangers.
He was ambushed in February this year as he left the ferry port and was
killed in a hail of bullets.
Because of his status, news of Gregg's death sent shockwaves through the
loyalist community and sent the simmering feud between rival UDA leaders
into overdrive.
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