Adair returned to jail after breach of terms

Feared Loyalist paramilitary chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was arrested tonight.

He was sent back to Maghaverry prison, County Antrim, after it was claimed he had breached conditions for his release from prison, under the terms of the Good Friday agreement.

Armed officers swooped on Adair’s home in the Lower Shankill area of Belfast.

He is at the centre of a vicious feud with rivals after being expelled from the Ulster Defence Association last year.

Adair was arrested at his home in Boundary Way, in the Lower Shankill area of West Belfast.

His close associate John White said he was astonished at Adair’s return to prison.

He said: “Here we have a man who did not want to see any violence and who did not want to see anyone losing their lives.

“Yet we have these UDA brigadiers ordering the death of Johnny and myself, and they are running around free.

“I think many Loyalists will be very angry. Johnny Adair was a peace maker and he did not want to get involved in any feud.”