Editing Loyalist feud (section)

===1999–2001===
Simmering tensions boiled over in a December 1999 incident involving LVF members and UVF Mid-Ulster brigadier [[Richard Jameson (loyalist)|Richard Jameson]] and his men at the [[Portadown F.C.]] social club in which the LVF supporters were severely beaten. The LVF members swore revenge and on 10 January 2000 they took it by shooting Jameson dead on the outskirts of [[Portadown]].<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 313</ref> The UVF retaliated by [[2000 Tandragee killings|murdering two Protestant teenagers]] in [[Tandragee]], who were both suspected of LVF membership and involvement in Jameson's death. As it turned out, the victims, Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine, were not part of any loyalist paramilitary organisation. The UDA's Johnny Adair supported the LVF and used the feud to stoke up the troubles that eventually flared in his feud with the UVF later that year.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 314</ref> Meanwhile, the UVF attempted to kill the hitman responsible for killing Jameson, unsuccessfully, before the LVF struck again on 26 May, killing PUP man Martin Taylor in Ballysillan.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 318</ref> The LVF then linked up with Johnny Adair's C Company for a time as their feud with the UVF took centre stage.

However, the UVF saw fit to continue the battle in 2001, using its satellite group the [[Red Hand Commando]] to kill two of the LVF's leading figures, Adrian Porter and Stephen Warnock. Adair, however, convinced the LVF that the latter killing was the work of one of his rivals in the UDA, [[Jim Gray (UDA)|Jim Gray]], who the LVF then unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 371-372</ref>