Adair quizzed over assassination

FORMER paramilitary boss Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was heavily investigated over the assassination of loyalist informer William Stobie, detectives said yesterday.

Adair, the ex-Ulster Defence Association commander, who was in jail when the organisation’s one-time quartermaster was gunned down outside his North Belfast home, refused to co-operate with police, an inquest was told.

The inquest into Stobie’s death also heard from a secret witness who saw the suspected murder team patrol outside their victim’s home in a fake taxi for five days before he was killed.