Due to the arrest of the organisation's head many INLA members criticised the judgement of the leadership and during the four months that he was in jail, Hugh Torney was denounced as an illegitimate leader, expelled from the INLA, and Gino Gallagher ascended as the new chief of staff. Angered upon release, Hugh formulated a new faction of the INLA known as the INLA-General Headquarters (INLA GHQ) composed mainly of his most loyal supporters. Within the nine-month feud between the INLA GHQ and the main Belfast faction led by Gallagher six deaths due to violence occurred including the ordered killing of Gino Gallagher by Hugh Torney's GHQ members.