Exodus from Ulster
They presided over an empire built on drug money and violence. Now Ulster has finally had enough, and Johnny Adair’s gang has come to Scotland. Sunday Herald Home Affairs Editor Neil Mackay reports
In the words of the UDA, John White is a “dead man walking”. But White just doesn’t seem to be listening to what his old pals in the Ulster Defence Association are saying about him.
White was once one of the key figures inside the UDA, the most feared loyalist paramilitary organisation in Ulster, but he and some 40 other dissident loyalist are now in hiding in Ayrshire and it’s all because of Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair.
The rogue UDA commander started a bloody feud with rival leaders of the UDA in a bid to take over the organisation and line his pockets with the proceeds of terrorist drug-dealing. Last Thursday, the feud ended in disaster for Adair’s outfit when White together with Adair’s wife Gina, her three children, and some 17 other dissident loyalists were forced to flee their Belfast stronghold on the Protestant Shankill Road in the early hours at the point of a gun.
They presided over an empire built on drug money and violence. Now Ulster has finally had enough, and Johnny Adair’s gang has come to Scotland. Sunday Herald Home Affairs Editor Neil Mackay reports
In the words of the UDA, John White is a “dead man walking”. But White just doesn’t seem to be listening to what his old pals in the Ulster Defence Association are saying about him.
White was once one of the key figures inside the UDA, the most feared loyalist paramilitary organisation in Ulster, but he and some 40 other dissident loyalist are now in hiding in Ayrshire and it’s all because of Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair.
The rogue UDA commander started a bloody feud with rival leaders of the UDA in a bid to take over the organisation and line his pockets with the proceeds of terrorist drug-dealing. Last Thursday, the feud ended in disaster for Adair’s outfit when White together with Adair’s wife Gina, her three children, and some 17 other dissident loyalists were forced to flee their Belfast stronghold on the Protestant Shankill Road in the early hours at the point of a gun.