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Person: Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair

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Turning to Stone — Life as a loyalist hitman

DRAWN into militant loyalism from an early age, Michael Stone, 50, joined the infamous loyalist Tartan Gang at the age of 13 and by the age of 16 he had already been held in Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail for possession of firearms and membership of the Ulster Defence Association.

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Adair’s son arrested in drugs raid

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PSNI fear Adair aide murdered

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UDA bid for stability as Adair successor named

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Adair ally defects to bitter rivals

BITTER enemies of Northern Ireland’s most feared sectarian warlord Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair taunted him yesterday over the defection of one of his closest associates.

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PSNI fear ‘open warfare’ between loyalist factions

FEARS heightened last night of a gun war between rival loyalist paramilitaries in the North.

Wed, 18 Sep, 2002

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