 He was repatriated to the Republic of Ireland as part of the Northern Ireland peace process before being released from prison in 1999, and subsequently avoided extradition back to Northern Ireland to serve his sentence for killing the member of the SAS.Magee was born in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast on 30 January 1948.He joined the Belfast Brigade of the IRA, and received a five-year sentence in 1971 for possession of firearms.