UDA expel second loyalist

Leading loyalist John White has been expelled from the Ulster Defence Association, it was claimed today.

The action against White comes just 48 hours after the organisation’s West Belfast commander, Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was kicked out for siding with a rival Loyalist terror group amid fears of a new vicious paramilitary feud.

White, a convicted murderer, has been a close associate and mentor of Adair’s both before and after he was released from prison.

But a statement issued today by the inner council of the UDA, Northern Ireland’s largest Loyalist paramilitary group, declared: “The leadership had no alternative but to give notice of their decision to also expel the former West Belfast commander’s close ally and media spokesperson.”