A CONVICTED loyalist terrorist, who is testifying for the British state in one of the North’s largest ever paramilitary trials, has admitted to being a life-long alcoholic with a drugs habit who fled the region with money stolen from his parents.

A convicted loyalist terrorist who is testifying for the Crown in one of the North's largest ever paramilitary trials has admitted to being a life long alcoholic, with a drugs habit who fled the region with money stolen from his parents.

LOYALIST leader Mark Haddock smirked as he dispatched a hit team to gun down a paramilitary rival, a member of the murder plot has told a court.

Loyalist leader Mark Haddock smirked as he dispatched a hit team to gun down a paramilitary rival, a self-confessed member of the murder plot told a court in Belfast today.