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10/01/2005
Johnny Adair freed from jail
Former loyalist leader Johnny Adair has been released from prison and flown to England.
Mr Adair was taken to RAF Aldergrove on Monday and flown by helicopter to Manchester despite not being due for release until Thursday.
It is understood the Shankill Road man was met and interviewed by a representative of the Greater Manchester Police when he arrived.
Last week Chief Superintendent Dave Lea of Greater Manchester Police warned that criminal behaviour would not be tolerated and that his force would act "robustly" to deal with any criminal or anti-social behaviour.
Mr Adair is expected to settle in the Bolton area where his wife, family and former associates now reside following a UDA power struggle in 2003.
During that struggle East Antrim loyalist John ‘Grugg’ Gregg was shot dead.
The UDA leadership blamed elements within Johnny Adair's "C Company" faction for the killing and forced his family and associates to flee as part of a UDA purge of the lower Shankill area.
This is the third time Mr Adair has been released from prison since his conviction in 1995.
in August 2000 he was returned to prison by the Northern Ireland Secretary of State for a breach of his release licence under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
(MB/SP)
Mr Adair was taken to RAF Aldergrove on Monday and flown by helicopter to Manchester despite not being due for release until Thursday.
It is understood the Shankill Road man was met and interviewed by a representative of the Greater Manchester Police when he arrived.
Last week Chief Superintendent Dave Lea of Greater Manchester Police warned that criminal behaviour would not be tolerated and that his force would act "robustly" to deal with any criminal or anti-social behaviour.
Mr Adair is expected to settle in the Bolton area where his wife, family and former associates now reside following a UDA power struggle in 2003.
During that struggle East Antrim loyalist John ‘Grugg’ Gregg was shot dead.
The UDA leadership blamed elements within Johnny Adair's "C Company" faction for the killing and forced his family and associates to flee as part of a UDA purge of the lower Shankill area.
This is the third time Mr Adair has been released from prison since his conviction in 1995.
in August 2000 he was returned to prison by the Northern Ireland Secretary of State for a breach of his release licence under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
(MB/SP)
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