UDA wants Adair to leave North on release
The Ulster Defence Association wants its former west Belfast commander, Johnny Adair, to leave the North when he is released from jail later this month.
Adair is serving a sentence at Maghaberry Prison for directing terrorism, but the sentence expires this month.
The feared loyalist leader had been released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, but this was revoked because of his ongoing involvement in paramilitarism, criminality and a vicious feud between rival UDA factions.
Adair's wife, children and associates were forced to leave the Shankill Road area of west Belfast by the UDA leadership after the murder of another commander, John Gregg, which was blamed on Adair.
Gina Adair, who has been diagnosed with cancer, now lives in the English city of Bolton, where Adair's son, Jonathan, was recently jailed for conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
The UDA in Belfast has made it repeatedly clear that it will target Adair unless he too leaves the North when he is freed from prison this month.
