The Ulster loyalist paramilitary godfather now lives in exile in Scotland following a murderous feud with his own people.
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00:00Well, I was charged and convicted of directing terrorism, and there only was one director, Johnny Adair.
00:11Adair decided who lived and who died in those days in North Belfast.
00:15And I used to say to him, now, where are you going?
00:17And he would say to me, where am I going?
00:21I'm going to make the news tonight.
00:23I decide what you watch on television tonight.
00:27Go home and watch it.
00:28Well, that meant someone was going to die.
00:30Few people in this country strike as much fear and terror as Johnny Mad Dog Adair.
00:37Directing terrorism meant picking targets, choosing targets, targeting targets.
00:42Now, delaying that language. Is that killing people?
00:45Well, engaging with the enemy, let's just say. Engaging with the enemy.
00:48How many bodies does he have in his hands?
00:51Well, people talk in terms of 30.
00:52They say you're only as good as your last operation.
00:55And under my direction, C Company have been involved in many, many, many professional operations against the professional IRA.
01:07And yet, he's willing to risk it all, just to humiliate his enemies.
01:13It could cost me my life.
01:14If I'm that careful, and these people were to capture me, I've no doubt that they would kill me.
01:20No doubt whatsoever.
01:21Fuck, fucks sake stuff.
01:25Fucks sake.
01:26It sounds fuckin' leg.
01:28here.
01:53Over a 20-year reign, Adair directed more than 40 killings
01:57and hundreds of attempted murders. Today he's living in exile in Britain,
02:02looking for a new place to call home.
02:13Banished from his Belfast home after a murderous feud with other loyalist paramilitary leaders,
02:19Adair and son Jonathan, known as Madpup, have teamed up with gangster Mark Scarface Morrison.
02:26The quiet seaside town of Eyre is no stranger to visitors from across the water in Northern Ireland,
02:35but recently the landmark station hotel found itself playing close to some less welcome guests.
02:41Excuse me, turn that camera off.
02:43About 30 loyalist paramilitaries on the run and less than keen on being observed.
02:49These days, Adair is lying low in the Scottish town of Troon, ever watchful for assassins bent on settling old scores.
03:01In turn, Adair himself is being monitored by MI5, Strathclyde Police, the Police Service of Northern Ireland,
03:08Greater Manchester Police and the National Crime Squad.
03:13Troon is like a quiet town for well-off people and most of the bars, which I don't even frequent,
03:21but apparently I'm barred in quite a few of them for no reason other than I am who I am.
03:27Just stories about my past and about the fact that I served 16 years in prison and the fact that I was involved in terrorism.
03:39They just don't seem to let the past lie.
03:41So what do you do all day?
03:44Bits and pieces.
03:49Business interests.
03:52Kept very busy.
03:57Also do a bit of training.
04:03Johnny Adair won't talk about his business interests.
04:06He says he survived some benefits and the goodwill of loyal friends.
04:12Adair, who like Lady Thatcher and the Queen, refers to himself in the third person, denies being a major drug dealer.
04:20Their son, Jonathan, has served time for selling heroin and crack cocaine.
04:26I don't know if it's a place where the media is saying that I'm a fucking drug dealer.
04:30How could someone like Johnny Adair possibly fucking deal in drugs?
04:33How could someone like Johnny Adair possibly be in any way associated with him?
04:36Johnny Adair, I have no doubt, is under 24 hours of violence by the special branch.
04:40No matter is it here in Scotland or if it's in Manchester or back home in Belfast.
04:45I mean, that would be a fact.
04:49So I mean, it would be suicide for me to try anything illegal, let alone drugs.
04:54The only drugs Johnny Adair admits to taking are bodybuilding steroids.
05:01Do I take steroids? Well, does Popeye take spinach?
05:04As a teenager, when I was involved in street clashes, I had a number of head wounds where I'd been hit with battles, stones, hurley sticks and hammers.
05:14I'd been hit there with a hurley butt, with fighting Catholic youths.
05:18And here I was smashed with a hammer.
05:21In the back of my head I'd been hit with bottles.
05:24And in here I'd been shot point blank range as I attended a UB40 concert back home in Belfast.
05:30That was the most recent wound.
05:33And ten years ago the IRA riddled my car and they just grazed me here.
05:39I was lucky I was just grazed there on the side.
05:42And then some twenty years ago I was stabbed in the back here, which resulted in me having to have my spleen removed.
05:51And I'd been stabbed there with nationalist youths and street clashes with them.
05:59And just all and all I'd had scars about my face and teeth knocked out as a result of fighting.
06:04The actual gunman that I now understand, the actual guy that pulled the trigger, is himself dead.
06:10He committed suicide whilst living down in Dublin.
06:14One of the other ones that physically assaulted me that night was himself murdered by the provisional IRA,
06:19using the cover name of Direct Action Against Drugs.
06:23So they're dead again and I'm still alive.
06:28A lot of your adversaries.
06:30Pardon?
06:31A lot of the people who are trying to kill you are dead.
06:33Themselves, without me having to fire a shot at them.
06:36Interesting indeed, isn't it?
06:38I'd like to see what will happen to the people that are still around.
06:42Only Johnny Adair knows how many bodies lie at his feet.
06:51He claims those days are behind him.
06:54But many believe he's now operating as a gangster, under the directing hand of a Scottish underworld godfather.
07:01Adair's enemies, and he as many, are watching their backs.
07:07Good afternoon, and welcome to this tour of Belfast.
07:11On this tour, we're going to bring you three areas which you've probably seen on the news and read about in the newspapers.
07:16Okay folks, we're just bringing you into the Shankill area here.
07:19You'll see the colours of red, white and blue.
07:21Now, a loyalist is someone who is loyal to Her Majesty the Queen and the Crown in England.
07:26This area in particular, at one time, was controlled by a man you've probably all heard about.
07:31A man called Johnny Mad Dog Adair.
07:33Johnny Adair controlled this area with an iron fist.
07:37Adair enjoys the limelight, but even he would be surprised to learn that he's become a tourist attraction.
07:44Now, if you look straight out the window, you'll see a large UFF mural.
07:49But if such thing is a good mural, this could be it.
07:52If you watch the gunman's eyes and the weapon as we leave the area, both the eyes and the weapon follow you the whole way round this area.
08:02This area erupted into chaos in a murderous feud between different loyalist factions.
08:08Loyalists are once again at each other's throats.
08:11The UDA took brutal and decisive action to rid the lower shankle of Adair's supporters.
08:16Local people claimed several carloads of men linked to Johnny Adair attacked two houses and a car.
08:21We saw literally dozens and dozens of men. Lots of guys that were fighting, punching, kicking each other.
08:26Those who remained loyal to Adair had no choice but to leave.
08:31Adair's gang were run out of town.
08:38It's emerged that loyalist paramilitary leader Johnny Mad Dog Adair has moved to a Scottish seaside town.
08:44Strathclyde police said the presence of Adair was clearly of interest to the force.
08:53So what's the tattoo you're getting now and why?
08:55I'm getting a UFF Sea Company one.
08:57The words in Latin are actions, not words.
09:02Sea Company was an army that were men of actions and not words.
09:07The machine itself, I suppose it's like a gun really.
09:22Like a needle, it doesn't actually, you know, cut your, it punctures your skin.
09:28But a lot of people take it better than others.
09:35I think you're in pain there to be, I think you've just been brave.
09:38It is, it's sore, of course it's sore.
09:40The line I've ever said it wasn't.
09:44You're not going to faint?
09:46No, I hope not.
09:47I've got a Chelsea football tattoo.
09:49I know, and you've fainted.
09:51And you've got my tattoo.
09:55But you're not a brave heart, don't I?
09:57I know.
09:58You're an Irish Celt.
09:59Jonathan can't disguise the pain as well as his dad, though as a teenager in Belfast, he did suffer an agonising punishment shooting for anti-social behaviour, widely accepted to have been ordered by his father.
10:18What did they do to you?
10:19Well, I was top of an alley and I was told to sit in the ground, kneeling down with my bag against the wall.
10:24So, he showed me putting the ball to an egg on and I just told him to get over and done with.
10:29You said get it over quickly?
10:30No, I didn't want to be waiting about it, thinking about it, you know what I mean?
10:33Before now it was shot.
10:36And where did they shoot you?
10:37Both coughs.
10:39And he just left me.
10:40I tried to get up and walk, but I walked a bit, but I ended up falling again.
10:44Any scars?
10:45No.
10:46Yeah?
10:48I think that was basically the same on the other leg, yeah?
10:50Same on the other leg, yeah?
10:51Yeah.
10:52But that was, that was through my tattoo.
10:54It was a bit raging at that, like, it was through the, you know what I mean?
10:58See it there?
10:59Yeah.
11:00Well, I'll tell you the truth, I wasn't at bars on any of my calves, no, I'm different with my kneecaps.
11:04That's, that's awfully like getting that.
11:06And the police say, who did it?
11:08Oh, yeah.
11:09It was telling them to go away, no other business.
11:12Well, I think Jonathan was mad enough to take his punishment and he realised that he wasn't getting any special treatment because I was his father.
11:21He was just treated the way any other teenager in that area would be dealt with if they crossed the paramountries.
11:28But despite the family's best efforts, Jonathan went on to become a drug dealer.
11:33Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Adair faces ten separate charges of conspiracy to supply and supplying Class A drugs.
11:41Jonathan Adair sold heroin and crack cocaine to undercover police officers.
11:45Gina Adair, seen here in a white hood, appeared at Bolton Magistrates Court charged with conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
11:54The shadow of drugs has followed Adair, his family and his organisation.
12:01It's accepted that your organisation financed activities to millions of pounds, fund your political operations and your military operations by racketeering, extortion and drugs.
12:11That's accepted?
12:12That's a fact.
12:13That's a fact.
12:14Both loyalists and Republicans, absolutely.
12:16So, because of the organisation involvement in drugs, reckoning and extortion, presumably, you know, it's no one that people think, you know, Johnny Adair, well his organisation ran drugs, extortion and everything else, you know, now the next business is going to be drugs for you in Scotland.
12:29But what the people, the people just need to look at my background and other so-called loyalist backgrounds and see who has the wealth. Johnny Adair doesn't have the wealth. Johnny Adair was a soldier, a freedom fighter.
12:39Johnny Adair was never his God.
12:40That's true, but nowadays people say, listen, he had the expertise to run an organisation and run millions of pounds of extortion. Are you going to take those big multi-million pound extortion drug operations to Scotland?
12:51No.
12:52To Britain?
12:53To Bolton?
12:54No, no, no, because of breaking the law.
12:55Okay, but you know, then they say Jonathan's locked in there, he's done this time.
12:58Yes, and they'll not be doing it again. Jonathan, quite foolishly, got involved with drugs in Bolton and as a result he received five years in prison, had done him the world of good, he's out now, he's clear of drugs and he'll never be down that road again. Now there will his father.
13:14You won't be kneecapping him if he gets involved again, will you?
13:18Absolutely not.
13:19Adair's buddy in Scotland, Mark Scarface Morrison, is not a terrorist. He's what police call an ODC, an ordinary decent criminal. His 64 convictions include assault and fraud. He's known as an underworld fixer. But today Morrison is happy to call himself a consultant.
13:41So would you be the consultant to the street sense?
13:44Well, allegedly, I'm a, fuck up, would you?
13:49Who is the ADC of the underworld? Scarl?
13:53I suppose I would be a man of the street, to be honest, you know. I would be known as probably a street player. I'm certainly not a gangster, absolutely not.
14:08How did you get the scar?
14:11The scar was allegedly, there was a contract out of my life, foolishly, with two underworld figures, who are now both dead, and three masked men kicked my door in.
14:25I was out of prison that very day and three masked men kicked my door in and attempted to kill me at half past three in the morning.
14:31Allegedly, one of those men got shot five times in the head, outside his front door. Another one died of a fatal accident. So, who knows?
14:40Who would have shot that man?
14:42Absolutely no idea.
14:43Would you know a man who did?
14:45Possibly.
14:48Would you be well informed?
14:51We could see him out of the street.
15:02But within days, Mark Morrison, the underworld fixer, is taken off the streets, having received a prison sentence for a brutal assault on a young woman. Adair keeps a brave faith.
15:13Worst case scenario, it could have been murder, but it wasn't. Thank goodness.
15:17What was the challenge?
15:18No, it was just assault. It was nothing serious.
15:22Coincidentally, Adair received a conviction for assaulting his own estranged wife, Gina, a woman dubbed by her enemies as Mad Bitch.
15:32Just hours after being released from jail, renegade loyalist Johnny Mad Dog Adair has admitted assaulting his wife in a drunken argument. Adair was seen punching his wife repeatedly and dragging her by the hair.
15:46Johnny Adair has also lost his beloved Alsatians. Once his mascots, they are now being held by one of his paramilitary rivals.
15:55You stole them dogs. You're an evil man, Desmond, and I want them back. I've found out where you're living. I'm coming to confront you for my dogs, Desmond.
16:02Let's see what happens, eh?
16:04Let's see, there we go. Let's see what happens. What are you going to do? You going to kill me?
16:07Well, part this way, Johnny. If you were to ask me, would you be safe in my company again? I don't think I'd appreciate them all, Johnny.
16:14Well, I don't want no felons. I know you're an evil man. I know what you're capable of. But I don't want to confront you to face something like that. I just want my dogs back, Desmond.
16:24Wait, I think I'm going to get off back. It's going around six foot under.
16:28And you're six foot under?
16:29I told you about that time when I was sitting in the Mazda outside your door, I was telling myself if he moves from that curb. What I have and I have down the side door hall, he's going to get a sock bush. You know what I mean?
16:42You see, that's using felons, Desmond. Why? I just...
16:45No, you're an evil man, Desmond. You're a convicted drug dealer, Desmond. You've stole my dogs and then you're threatening me.
16:53And then you're threatening that they would kill me if I come face to face with you. All righty, all righty, all righty. I am asking you, Desmond. I'm not threatening you. I'm begging you.
17:00I'm even begging you. Would you please... No, would you... Would you please give me my dogs back?
17:05I'm offering you £3,000 for the safe return of Shane and Rabal, the two dogs that I dearly love, Desmond.
17:11Can I help her?
17:12Please do.
17:13Oh shit.
17:14Well then, Desmond, I'm coming to your door.
17:21Meanwhile, in Exile in Scotland, Mad Dog Adair is looking for a new friend.
17:28What's that?
17:47What's that?
17:48Is somebody mad dog or something?
17:51Mad dog?
17:55You know what I was just saying? Some of the staff think you look like somebody called Mad Dog.
18:01I love German Shabbos and that's why I'm here today, hopefully to get another one. And this wee one here looks perfect. Obviously it's been a wee bit...
18:12It seems frightened, but hopefully I'll put that right over the couple of weeks and couple of months and make it a good home.
18:19Adair is keen to nurture the support of his other loyal friends. Lottery Millionaire Michael Carroll has asked him to stay the weekend at a suburban village home.
18:34Well, we're hundreds of maids from my home. We're in Norfolk where I'm going to visit my friend, Mickey Carroll, who you should all know as the Lottery Millionaire.
18:46This is the shop where he bought his first and only lottery ticket, which he won £9 or £10 million. Could I have a lottery ticket please? And I'm going to do the same thing now. Hopefully I'm going to win it.
18:57Adair's friendship with self-styled lottery lout, Michael Carroll, began when the multi-millionaire wrote to Adair in prison.
19:06Adair's fearsome reputation now offers the lottery winner protection from the many extortionists anxious to share in Carroll's good fortune.
19:14Already he is said to have lost nearly a million pounds.
19:18One party cost me 28 grand.
19:2228 grand?
19:24Had about 100 blokes, 200 women, most people would call them orgies, but I was unreal.
19:2928 grand?
19:30Okay, I'm fucking booze.
19:33At 12 times.
19:34How much have you ever had in one go?
19:36Half a million.
19:37In one go?
19:38At your disposable?
19:39Fuck.
19:40What were you doing with that?
19:41I wanted to see it.
19:42What?
19:43You wanted to see it?
19:44UDA.
19:45Carol's hero worship of Adair works both ways.
19:50Carol enjoys the company of the terrorist legend, while Adair has big plans for the lottery winner.
19:56Mickey's going to fucking start a new battalion off the UDA in Norfolk, and Mickey's going to become the brigadier.
20:03Do you see any problem with that, Mickey?
20:04No, I don't.
20:06Good man.
20:07Will you be passing on your trading expertise to him?
20:09No, Mickey will be passing on his money to loyalist prisoners.
20:11Hope you're shells, innit?
20:12Hope you're you there!
20:13Hope you're here!
20:14Hope you're here!
20:15Hope you're here!
20:16Hope you're here!
20:17Hope you're here!
20:18Hope you're here!
20:19Hope you're here!
20:20Hope you're here!
20:21How are you looking for, man?
20:22Let's make a couple of minutes.
20:23Go ahead.
20:24What do you put that there to make a mental strike?
20:29Oh, Lamb is that I have a bottle of them now.
20:32In the loft conversion of the lottery winner's home is a secret room.
20:39room.
21:09Oh yes, I'm sure you're off.
21:21Oh yes, I'll take it.
21:23Hold, hold, hold, hold.
21:25There's no lines standing there.
21:27Jesus, fuck.
21:29That's not a great one.
21:31What's your name?
21:35Then I'm doing my hat on back to the front and doing my outer glasses.
21:38Adair orders photos to be taken.
21:41A permanent record of the occasion.
21:44Get the fist out.
21:47It's as good as fuck, yeah.
21:50But this friendship was to be short-lived.
21:53Days later, millionaire Carroll traded his detached home for a prison cell
21:59after pleading guilty to a vicious assault on a group of young Christians
22:03at a gospel concert.
22:05Here in the former East Germany, a group of ex-neo-Nazis have found a new spiritual leader.
22:17One member even has a shrine to the man.
22:20Johnny is a good friend of mine.
22:23And I like him and his lifestyle.
22:26And he's a great man with his charisma.
22:31And he smiles every time.
22:35And he's so funny.
22:37And that's the reason why I have a shrine for him.
22:41And to see him every day and let him know he have friends here.
22:50And they will stand by him forever.
22:53He is simply tiny and he is the best.
22:57They've issued an invitation to Adair to visit them in Dresden.
23:02And the terrorist leader has accepted.
23:09Nick Gregor is a notorious neo-Nazi leader in jail for bomb making.
23:14Despite running a white supremacist coup attempt in South Africa, he's now pledged to go straight.
23:22Nick!
23:23Oh, my friend!
23:24My good friend!
23:25How are you?
23:26I see you!
23:27I see you!
23:28I see you!
23:29Johnny Madogader is visiting a loyal supporter inside a German prison.
23:38Nick Gregor is a convicted neo-Nazi leader, trained in bomb making.
23:43I have all the posters of you and photographs.
23:48It looks like a...
23:51It looks, myself, looks like a UFF headquarter.
23:56I thought, we need someone like Johnny over here to lead us.
24:02And we couldn't find someone like Johnny over here, so we were going to Johnny.
24:08You know what I mean?
24:09We chose him to be our chief.
24:15My struggle is to support you and to protect you if you have trouble.
24:21My message to these UDA brigadiers is, should someone go and shoot Johnny again or attack him or whatever.
24:31So we will be able to send five guys over to Belfast.
24:35That's not a problem.
24:36So we have our Jackie McDonald find and everything.
24:40We know, we know where to find these guys.
24:43That's not a problem.
24:45And we don't need an army to carry out a punishment beating or something like that.
24:50We only need a small group of volunteers and these are guys.
24:53They are very well experienced in carrying out punishment beatings and whatever.
24:59I know how to build, to create a land mine, you know, or a pipe bomb and all these things, a bobby trap bomb, you know all these things.
25:13I got teach these things when I was in South Africa in a training camp and all these stuff.
25:19I know how to do this.
25:20So I just want to say we have the know-how to carry out a punishment beating even in Belfast.
25:27That's not a problem.
25:29Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
25:30You have to enjoy the day.
25:31Maybe you bring him to a nightclub and he can use some money in the nightclub.
25:37Maybe you have to taste, to taste a German woman.
25:41Yes, of course.
25:44After acting as Adair's bodyguard in Bolton, Nick Greger was banned from entering the United Kingdom.
25:50Gregor and his group of supporters see themselves as the German division of Adair's private army.
26:02What are these photos?
26:21Christiane, you must be really passionate about me and my family.
26:26Oh, yeah?
26:27Yeah, those are my children.
26:29Found a real size.
26:32That's you.
26:33That's you.
26:34That's Tina.
26:35That's you.
26:37Adair basks in his international support,
26:40a legendary terrorist pin-up assured of his place in history.
26:45But he is far from being yesterday's man.
26:47Some fear that Adair is already taking his battlefield skills to underworld Britain.
26:53Adair is as much a threat today.
26:56Anywhere he lives, be it Bolden, Edinburgh, he will always be a threat.
27:01He's a gangster wrapped in a Union Jack.
27:04That's all he is.
27:05In his heyday, Adair was a don with a passion.
27:18And at the core of that passion was violence.
27:21Move, surrender!
27:22Yeah!
27:23Yeah!
27:24Yeah!
27:25Yeah!
27:26I thought I loved it.
27:28I loved it.
27:29I thought I thought it was my life, Foxy.
27:31Ah, of course I loved it.
27:34I fucking just was married to that organisation.
27:38And lived, slept, dreamed, breathed that organisation.
27:43That's just the way I was.
27:45Under Adair's direction, C Company are understood to have been responsible for over 40 murders,
27:52and hundreds of attempted murders.
27:58He rarely gave interviews, but could never pass up a good photo opportunity.
28:03At his peak, Adair seemed untouchable.
28:06Adair didn't have to ask permission from anyone to do anything.
28:10He thought nothing.
28:11I found the volunteer £100 or £200 to walk his dogs.
28:15Instantly recognisable, Adair made an easy target.
28:20On an outing to see his favourite band, UB40, he was shot at point-blank range.
28:25And do you feel you've been quite lucky?
28:28I mean, shot in the head, I mean, it could have been a whole lot worse.
28:31There's not many people who could shot in the back of the head and walk away.
28:35A bullet in the head wasn't enough to stop Adair running an empire built on drugs, extortion,
28:42prostitution, money laundering and the distribution of weapons.
28:46Adair had to be stopped.
28:48I told him, I'll put you in jail.
28:51And he should have said to me, you have to catch me first.
28:57John T. Brown led the team who built the case against Adair.
29:01The terrorist leader was tailed, bugged and interrogated until finally John T. got his man.
29:08Mad Dog was snared.
29:10They started squealing and shouting with their guns and pointing them at all before they opened the doors.
29:15The next thing they started banging at the back of Wendy's.
29:17The next thing the back of Wendy's went in and they just grabbed everybody that was here.
29:22Now, twelve years later, Adair is free and John T. Brown is a nervous retirement.
29:31He claims Adair tried to bomb his house, something the terrorist leader denies.
29:42Today they've come face to face at a neutral location in Manchester.
29:47John T. Brown comes with a message.
29:51Security is on hand, just in case.
29:54Who's your two friends, Mr. Brown?
29:56You're not afraid of me, are you?
29:57No one did or not.
29:59Well, why do you bring security?
30:00You falsely accuse me of a bomb in your house.
30:03If your home is attacked, in the manner that mine was attacked.
30:06My home's been attacked more times than yours.
30:08Well, that's true.
30:09To take you out or to put you down in jail was a policing imperative.
30:14But my pursuit of you was professional, not personal.
30:17It should never be taken to a family.
30:20Well, you used to talk to my family, didn't you?
30:23Go ahead, tell me.
30:24He's rid of my house on a number of occasions.
30:25He's smashed my doors in.
30:26He's sledgehammered my doors in.
30:27He's handcuffed me.
30:28He's handcuffed my wife.
30:29He's took us away to Holden centres and held us for days upon days.
30:33Whether you're involved in crime by way of terrorism, gangsterism, drug dealing, prostitution,
30:39you'll suffer house searches.
30:41If you put yourself in a frame for directing terrorists,
30:44you can't complain when a detective sergeant comes after you like an Exocet missile.
30:50Jonti's message turns out to be a warning.
30:53If you go back to Northern Ireland, you'll be shot there.
30:56It's as simple as that.
30:57I would say there'll be people lying, queuing up to kill you, the UDA.
31:00As we speak, they're trying to whack you.
31:02They don't care whether it's in Bolton or Trun or wherever, but they'll get to you.
31:09Talk is cheap, Jonti.
31:10It's easy to jump on the stage and read out statements that we're going to kill you, Jonti.
31:14I've heard it all before throughout the years.
31:16Action speaks louder than words.
31:18And if you don't watch yourself, you're going to end up dead.
31:21Life's too short.
31:23Life is too short.
31:24There's more to life than loyalism.
31:27But Adair doesn't take kindly to being told where he can and cannot go.
31:31Six of the so-called brigadiers threatened to have me murdered.
31:37To date, two of these so-called brigadiers are now themselves six foot under, dead.
31:42And Jonti Adair's still standing here talking.
31:44Jonti Adair will return home soon.
31:46Jonti Brown has warned that should Adair return to Belfast, he will be killed.
31:53This sparks an idea for an ambitious yet potentially deadly stunt designed to humiliate the very
31:59people that are threatening him.
32:01He's hatching a plan that puts two fingers up to those baying for his blood.
32:08What I always say, I always say, he who laughs last will laugh the longest.
32:13And what goes around will come around.
32:15Despite the death threats, Adair is planning a trip to Belfast.
32:43With military precision.
32:46It's a 600 mile journey from Scotland, through England, Wales, the Republic of Ireland and
32:53a late night border crossing into Northern Ireland.
32:56Decoy cars and safe houses are planned in conditions of utmost secrecy.
33:02Hello?
33:03Once we head to Wales, we board the ferry, it brings us into Dublin.
33:12We'll travel by car across the border to the north of Ireland.
33:15Then we'll be taken to a safe house.
33:18We'll run the food at that safe house.
33:22And we'll put into effect our plan.
33:27It could cost me my life.
33:42If I'm that careful, then these people were to capture me.
33:45I have no doubt that they would kill me.
33:48No doubt whatsoever.
33:50I've arrived in Dublin now.
33:52I'm hoping that the CARE doesn't stop me on the way through.
33:57Because if I do, I believe they'll alert the PSN that I'm working on the border.
34:03And that obviously they will put me under some sort of surveillance and this is what I don't
34:20want.
34:21I want to be able to go in.
34:33We'll take a look out soon.
34:34We'll dig into switch!
34:35Let's get to the end.
34:40That's true!
34:42How's he doing?
34:43What are you looking for?
34:44What are you doing?
34:45What are you looking for?
34:46I want to be like I'm looking for my hair now.
34:47How he flowing.
34:48I know all this when I got you right, I went back to school, but его family.
34:53What are you looking for the Vatican?
34:55I'm going going in and there?
34:56LAJAL INSENUAL.
34:57terme a friendship!
34:58What are you talking about when I run away from realisation of innovation?
35:00What are you talking about from May1u1?
35:01What are you talking about from that?
35:02I mean, there's 2,000 airway activists here.
35:07It's a dangerous place for your team.
35:11No, that's good enough.
35:15Come on, man.
35:17Johnny?
35:18Yeah?
35:19Yeah, home.
35:20Just sit here right.
35:30No, no, no, no, no, go on down.
35:33Go on by him.
35:35You see, turn round, right, there we've got to.
35:37See, right, right.
35:39Turn you down, now go round.
35:40See, you still know what they're doing, they're driving.
35:42Do what I say, turn right round.
35:45Fire's rolled right on round.
35:47Straight round?
35:48Just right round.
35:49Come on, no, no, no, down there.
35:51See what I mean?
35:52He's having the clue.
35:56Right, we'll go left again, we'll see.
35:59He goes left.
36:00Just goes straight up.
36:02Fuck, see, I told you to go left, David.
36:04Is he coming behind us or what?
36:06I told you to go left, David, go right.
36:09Oh, there's this, cabs.
36:11Is it?
36:12Is it the cabs?
36:15See?
36:16What?
36:17Just straight walk down.
36:18I saw it the further away the better.
36:20Right, so stop, David.
36:21That's, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
36:23Fuck, sick, stop.
36:24Fuck, sick.
36:25That's so fucked, man.
36:26Yeah.
36:27Hello, how are you?
36:29Hello, how are you?
36:30Sorry.
36:39I'm off for you second, please.
36:41Sure, yes, that's right.
36:42We reserve it right to film whenever you want to film.
36:44Sorry, could I ask you to separate it?
36:45You know who it is?
36:46Yeah.
36:47They know it's me?
36:48Yeah.
36:49Yes?
36:50Didn't say it, but they do, yeah.
36:51They know it was me?
36:52Yeah.
36:53How did they know this?
36:54To be frank, they wouldn't be doing the job, Johnny, if they didn't know.
36:55Well, if they know, would the UDA know?
36:56Yeah.
36:57Wow.
36:58Obviously, the intelligence services have their, their reasons of finding out what certain
37:15people's doing.
37:16And obviously, Mr Adair is one of them people who would be of interest till the intelligence
37:23services, whereas they would put him under surveillance, bug his phone, bug his car, bug
37:29his home.
37:30That's probably one of the reasons why we were stopped just coming out of the Shankill estate
37:37there.
37:38My fear is now, would the police leak to my enemies that I am in the country?
37:45I don't know, but I'll not let it hinder what my plans are to do.
37:51Who's that guy there?
37:54Did she go over there?
37:57I'm coming into the, entering the lower Shankill now.
37:59This is where I used to live.
38:01And this is where my family was exiled from, three years ago, when I was returned to prison.
38:06It was an area that I loved, and the people in it were loved.
38:13This used to be my homeland.
38:18This here was the bodge that I am proud of.
38:21That one time I was gone in this community, and now suddenly, the people who are now in
38:26charge finally turned to me and my family and my friends.
38:29And suddenly this area is now controlled by drug dealers, rapists, house breakers, and
38:35just petty criminals.
38:36It feels strange, and it feels that the place is just, it's just, it's not what it was three
38:42years ago.
38:43It doesn't have the same atmosphere about it.
38:45I feel distanced from it now.
38:47I feel, obviously, because the people that's in charge here now, I believe that they've ruined
38:52the community.
38:53They've erased everything to do with our culture, in terms of murals and flags, and just everything
39:00to do with our culture.
39:01It's been erased.
39:04Johnny Mad Dog Adair is risking his life in making a secret visit to his native Northern
39:10Ireland.
39:11He longs for his years in Loyalist West Belfast, the place he once ruled, though a third of
39:16those years were spent in jail.
39:19Referring to the maze, it was a home from home.
39:22The paramilitaries were on the prison.
39:25Whatever we wanted on the outside, which was not on the prison talk shop list, we could
39:30send out word and we'd have it smuggled in.
39:33We had this guy who had an artificial leg, and every Monday he would bring in sirloin
39:38steaks, steroids, whatever we needed.
39:41He came in every Monday, took his leg off and emptied off all the contacts on his legs.
39:45We had everything, from sacks, from our own food, just almost anything.
39:52They even had blow-up dolls.
39:55I can remember one occasion where some boys on the wing had one of them blow-up dolls.
40:00Everybody else had budgies, which they were allowed, but I wanted to go one step further,
40:04and I felt that there was a need to have a little dog run about.
40:07So I arranged to have a dog smuggled into the prison.
40:11One of Adair's associates in the maze was Michael Stone.
40:16In broad daylight, Stone carried out a brazen attack, tossing grenades at mourners at an IRA funeral.
40:22Well, the failure of choice down there would have been porn.
40:28And what most of the prisoners would have done on a daily basis would have went to the porn king,
40:32who was Michael Stone.
40:33And they would have went over to Michael and booked their porn movie for the night.
40:37Because Michael, let us say, I'm full of porn movies.
40:40And someone would have been homemade and smuggled in from the outside.
40:44So here you could not only view porn movies from America, but porn movies from the Greater Belfast area.
40:52You could get drunk, you could party.
40:54In fact, the prison authorities used to supply us with the disco lights, for the discos that we had in the winds.
41:00And even at the time, in the early 90s, people said, jokingly, that some of the best raves were held in the maze prison.
41:06And I'd be honest, but there were some good parties down there.
41:11When not indulging in sex, drugs and rock and roll, Adair liked nothing more than a good rooftop protest against prison conditions.
41:23Even today, mothballed and rusting, the maze prison still holds huge sentimental attachment for Johnny Adair.
41:31As a young teenager in my early teens, growing up, I loved coming to visit Loyalist Power Militaries in this prison.
41:38When I came to this prison, to visit paramilitaries who had defended Ulster against their enemies.
41:45I felt really proud.
41:46And I felt an honour to come to the maze prison and visit people like Michael Stone and other Loyalist killers.
41:53It was like getting, it was like your parents buying your toy.
41:55You were going into the maze prison and you were getting searched for the first time in your life by prison officers.
41:59Then you were going in and you were seeing Loyalist Power Militaries who you would have looked up to and who most people looked up to.
42:06And coming out of the physics, the whole way home on the bus, you'd have talked about it and you'd have talked about what other prisoners you had seen.
42:13Let's see.
42:14Let's see.
42:20Let's see.
42:21Let's go.
42:29Let's go.
42:30Let's go.
42:33Let's go.
42:35Despite waging war on its Catholic neighbors,
43:04Adair admits that had he been born a mile down the road,
43:07he would likely have joined the other side.
43:10If I was a Catholic, a nationalist,
43:12I probably would have joined the Republican movement
43:15and I probably would have fought for what they believed in.
43:19I would have probably been on the IRA Army Council.
43:34In the mainland, you have a normal life.
43:47You can do, even me, being Johnny Adair,
43:50can do the normal things, which I couldn't do.
43:53I mean, could you go out and bypass something, for example?
43:55No, no. Night clubbing? No.
43:57Concerts? No.
43:59Fights? Backs and ratchets? No.
44:01I've had the best times of my life
44:03since I've been over in England and Scotland,
44:06but it's not home.
44:08But will these newfound freedoms allow Adair
44:11to bring his military and criminal skills to mainland Britain?
44:15The authorities are ever vigilant.
44:18He wouldn't serve me.
44:20And I ask him why, and he says,
44:22because a photograph has been distributed,
44:25and I've been told that to serve me.
44:27What's going to happen to the guy who takes you out?
44:32He'd probably be treated as a hero
44:36in some small, smelly, dingy pub
44:39with about half a dozen people drinking it.
44:42Until Nick the Nazi comes over to take him out?
44:44Well, Nick says it to him,
44:45that if anything happened to me,
44:47he would most definitely come and do something about it.
44:50What's going to be on my tombstone?
44:52Johnny Adair, volunteer?
44:54Johnny Adair, soldier?
44:55Johnny Adair, gangster?
44:56Johnny Adair, from volunteer to brigadier.
44:59Who's around?
45:00Who's separate?
45:01It's simply the best.
45:05It's the end of the film, Johnny.
45:07It's the end of the road.
45:08The final chapter has yet to be written.
45:10Mr. McIntyre.
45:12Until that chapter is written,
45:17Johnny Adair is resigned to moving from town to town
45:20throughout the length and breadth of Britain.
45:24Rome was never built in a week.
45:27And one day, hopefully, myself, my family,
45:32and my close friends will return to our homeland.
45:41I'm only marking time here in Scotland.
45:43I will be going home to my native Holster.
45:45I don't know when.
45:46It could be a week, it could be a month,
45:47it could be a year, it could be three years.
45:49But I'll be back one day, and my son will be with me.
45:53Yet, wherever Mad Dog goes,
45:56his bloody past means he must remain ever vigilant
45:59for an assassin's bullet.
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