UDA bid for stability as Adair successor named

DEPOSED loyalist terror boss Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair suffered a final humiliation at the weekend when a new paramilitary regime was officially installed in his west Belfast stronghold.

With his wife Gina and tiny band of supporters exiled in Scotland, Ulster Defence Association men who defected from his power base in the Lower Shankill estate voted in his successor.

In a statement issued on Saturday night, the organisation also vowed to restore order in Protestant parts of the city following a violent feud which claimed four lives. It is understood the man who has taken over was one of Adair’s closest associates until he quit his C Company unit.