Editing Johnny Adair (section)

==Exile from Northern Ireland and personal life==
Following the ousting of C Company from the Shankill Road, Adair's family and supporters went to [[Bolton]] where they garnered the nickname 'Bolton Wanderers' after the [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|football club of the same name]].<ref>Henry McDonald, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jul/13/northernireland Why the streets of Bolton echo to the sounds of a loyalist vendetta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221112423/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jul/13/northernireland |date=21 December 2016 }}, ''[[The Observer]]'', 13 July 2003.</ref> Following the killing of LVF leader Billy Wright in 1997 Adair became the new contact man for a group of Bolton-based members of the [[neo-Nazi]] organisation [[Combat 18]] (C18) who up to that point had been close to the LVF{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}. Adair built up a close relationship with these far right activists, even wearing an [[England national football team|England]] shirt during [[UEFA Euro 2000]] that one of the members had given him{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}. Furthermore, when the feud with the UVF was launched in 2000 through C Company members attacking the UVF's Rex Bar stronghold a few C18 members fought alongside the UDA men. As a result, it was to the homes of these far rightists, in particular a Bolton-based tattoo artist and C18 member, that Adair's supporters fled in 2003.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, pp. 392–93</ref>

Adair was released from prison on 10 January 2005 and immediately headed to Bolton after being taken by helicopter to nearby [[Manchester]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4162761.stm "What next for Johnny Adair?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125203617/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4162761.stm |date=25 November 2005 }}, bbc.co.uk; accessed 16 December 2016.</ref> The police in Bolton questioned his wife, Gina about her involvement in the drugs trade, and his son, Jonathan Jr (nicknamed both 'Mad Pup' and 'Daft Dog'<ref>Jonathan McCormick, [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/mccormick/album51.htm A Directory of Murals – Album 51] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806134028/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/mccormick/album51.htm |date=6 August 2011 }}, ulst.ac.uk; accessed 16 December 2016.</ref>) has been charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin.<ref>[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article83072.ece "Terror follows Loyalist diehards to Bolton outpost"], ''The Independent'', 18 December 2003.{{dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref> Adair himself was arrested and fined for assault and threatening behaviour in September 2005. He had married Gina Crossan, his partner for many years, at the Maze prison on 21 February 1997. Together they had three children.<ref name="breen"/>

Several claims have been made about Adair's sexuality by his former girlfriend, Jackie "Legs" Robinson, and UDA hitman [[Michael Stone (loyalist)|Michael Stone]]. Stone claimed in his autobiography that Adair had sex with other male inmates while in prison.<ref>Michael Stone, ''None Shall Divide Us'', Blake Publishing; New edition (31 May 2004)<!-- ISBN, pages needed --></ref> Jackie Robinson, who beginning in 1991 sustained a nine-year off-and-on relationship with Adair, backed up this claim in an interview with ''The Mirror'', in which she alleged that Adair has been having sex with long-term friend and fellow loyalist Skelly McCrory since they were teenagers.<ref name="mirror">[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news-old/northernireland/2006/10/23/mad-dog-s-gay-romps-115875-17976952 "Mad Dog's Gay Romps"], mirror.co.uk, 23 October 2006; retrieved 10 August 2011.</ref>

Robinson told ''The Mirror'' journalist that she and Adair had sexual encounters during her visits to him in prison and that he received visits from prostitutes as well.<ref name="mirror"/> In her book, ''In Love With a Mad Dog'', Robinson stated that after a UDA killing had been carried out, he would become highly aroused and afterwards be "particularly wild in bed".<ref name="robinson30">Caldwell, June; Robinson, Jackie (2006). ''In Love With a Mad Dog''. UK: Gill & Macmillan Ltd. p. 30<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref> It was also alleged that the mere discussion of the details of operations he had helped plan gave him a "sexually charged excitement", even when the killings had been done by others.<ref>Wood, p. 168</ref>

After his release, he was almost immediately re-arrested for violently assaulting his wife Gina, who had been diagnosed with and treated for [[ovarian cancer]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4289156.stm "Adair admits park attack on wife"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070129123705/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4289156.stm |date=29 January 2007 }}, BBC.co.uk, 28 September 2005.</ref> After this episode Adair reportedly moved to [[Scotland]]<ref name=troon>[http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,1713177,00.html 'I'm no threat to anyone.' Why the war is over for Mad Dog Adair] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709064600/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,1713177,00.html |date=9 July 2007 }} – ''The Guardian'', 19 February 2006; accessed 29 September 2014.</ref> but later relocated to [[Horwich]], near Bolton in early 2003.<ref>Chris Summers [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/northern_ireland/3532141.stm "Drugs shame of Adair's son"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029234805/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/northern_ireland/3532141.stm |date=29 October 2013 }}, bbc.co.uk, 19 March 2004; accessed 29 September 2014.</ref> In 2003 he became a grandfather for the first time.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/22/northernireland "Adair gains a grandson"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221111638/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/22/northernireland |date=21 December 2016 }}, ''The Guardian''; accessed 29 September 2014.</ref>

In May 2006, it was reported that Adair had received £100,000 from [[John Blake Publishing]] for a [[ghost-written]] autobiography.<ref name=guardian>The book ''Mad Dog'', written by Graham McKendry, was published in 2007 (''{{ISBN|978-1-84454-339-7}}'')</ref> In November 2006, the UK's Five television channel transmitted an observational documentary on Adair made by [[Donal MacIntyre]]. The focus of the film centred around Adair and another supposedly reformed character, a former neo-Nazi from Germany known as Nick Greger, and their trip to Uganda to build an orphanage. Adair was seen firing rifles, stating it was the first time he had done so without wearing gloves. In November 2008, Adair appeared in an episode of ''[[Danny Dyer]]'s Deadliest Men'' which profiled fellow C Company inmate Sam "Skelly" McCrory.

On 20 July 2015 three Irish republicans (Antoin Duffy, Martin Hughes and Paul Sands) were found guilty of planning to murder Adair and Sam McCrory.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33594180 "Men guilty of Johnny Adair and Sam McCrory murder plot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128212105/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33594180 |date=28 November 2018 }}, bbc.co.uk; accessed 16 December 2016.</ref> Charges against one of the accused in the trial were dropped on 1 July.<ref>[http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1323887-charges-dropped-against-john-gorman-accused-in-mad-dog-murder-plot "Man walks free from 'Mad Dog' murder plot trial as charges dropped"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702134357/http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1323887-charges-dropped-against-john-gorman-accused-in-mad-dog-murder-plot/ |date=2 July 2015 }}, stv.tv; accessed 16 December 2016.</ref>

On 10 September 2016, Johnny and Gina Adair's son, Jonathan Jr, was found dead in [[Troon]], aged 32.<ref>[http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/jonathan-mad-pup-adair-found-11872619 "Jonathan 'Mad Pup' Adair found dead in Scotland"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108135736/http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/jonathan-mad-pup-adair-found-11872619 |date=8 November 2016 }}, BelfastLive.co.uk; accessed 7 November 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37334319 |title=Son of former loyalist paramilitary Johnny Adair found dead |publisher=BBC News |date=11 September 2016 |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-date=7 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907184747/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37334319 |url-status=live }}</ref> Adair Jr died from an accidental overdose while celebrating the day after his release from prison for motoring offences. Adair Jr had been in and out of prison since the family fled Northern Ireland. He served a five-year sentence for dealing heroin and crack cocaine. The year before Jonathan had been cleared of a gun raid at a party and in 2012 was the target of a failed bomb plot. He was also facing trial later that year on drugs charges.

In December 2023, while recording a [[podcast]] with [[far-right]] activist [[Tommy Robinson]], Adair surprisingly expresed a grudging respect for the [[1981 Irish hunger strike|IRA hunger strikers]],  describing the manner of their deaths as "dedication at the highest level" for a political cause and admitting that he would not have volunteered to do the same if asked.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/former-uda-boss-johnny-adair-brands-ira-best-guerrilla-army-ever-JSUGDWCQMBFIZHR7OVTTTGKQFQ/|title=Former UDA boss Johnny Adair brands IRA best ‘guerrilla army’ ever|publisher=Irish News |date=31 December 2023 |access-date=26 November 2024 }}</ref>