He was jailed for 16 years in 1996 but freed three years later under the Good Friday Agreement.
The savagery of the punishment tends to indicate the severity of the 'crime' - from flesh wounds for relatively minor offences to death for informing or attempting to muscle in on paramilitary rackets.Īdair Senior, 39, was threatened with a punishment shooting himself as a 15-year-old tearaway but opted to join the Ulster Defence Association, later becoming part of the UFF unit which was the most vicious sectarian murder gang in the province. Figures for loyalist punishments are slightly lower as they tend to concentrate on vicious beatings. Republican gunmen are known, however, to have shot 65 youths with a further 34 reported in the first six months of 2002. Most of Northern Ireland's punishment shootings or beatings go unreported to police. Police who went to investigate the shooting at Florence Square, close to huge wall paintings of Adair Senior, were forced to withdraw by a hostile crowd.
'The wounds were fairly minor and he was shot close to the hospital to ensure there would be no danger of him dying from blood loss before he could get help.' In Belfast terms, this was a rap across the knuckles. He added: 'He has just treated his son in the same way as dozens of local youths have suffered in the past few years. The insiders declined to reveal why Jonathan was shot but one said: 'Nothing happens in this estate without Johnny Adair authorising it.' Sources close to the Adairs claimed Jonathan - nicknamed 'Mad Pup' - was the victim of a punishment beating last year after getting involved in a fight and had received other warnings about his behaviour. We will be making our own investigations into what happened.'įrom past experience of the area where Adair and his Ulster Freedom Fighters unit command near-total respect, there would have been much more tension had an outside group been involved. He said: 'I have no idea why my son was shot. He returned to the heavily-fortified terraced house he shares with his father and mother Gina.Īdair Senior - who was once sentenced to 16 years in prison for directing terrorism - was reluctant to discuss the shooting but appeared very relaxed. The shooting happened conveniently close to the city's Mater Hospital, from which the youth discharged himself after a couple of hours. He suffered flesh wounds which should heal in about three weeks.
Jonathan Adair, 18-year-old son of Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair, was shot through both calves early yesterday about 200 yards from the family home in the Lower Shankill area of North Belfast. William Shatner feat.A loyalist terror leader ordered the shooting of his teenage son as a punishment, it was claimed last night.
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