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14/01/2003
Adair’s legal challenge delayed
Notorious loyalist Johnny Adair’s legal bid to overturn an order by the Secretary of State to send him back to prison has been delayed at the High Court in Belfast today.
Adair’s lawyer, Frank O’Donoghue QC said a preliminary issue had to be dealt with and he applied for the adjournment of Adair’s application for a writ of Habeas Corpus. It is expected to go forward on Friday instead.
Adair claims his return to prison and continued detention is unjust and contrary to law as well as being in breach of his human rights.
Last week, Secretary of State Paul Murphy revoked Adair’s licence on police advice and he can now be held in Maghaberry jail until 2005.
Adair was released last March having served 50% of his sentence. However on 10 January, Mr Murphy said he was satisfied that Adair was a “danger to others and while he was at liberty was likely to commit further offences”.
The move to return him was prompted by the escalating feud within the UDA over the expulsion of long-time members John White and Adair.
That feud has seen three murders in recent weeks, including that of 22-year-old Jonathan Stewart was shot dead on Boxing Day while at a party in Manor Street in north Belfast. A lone hooded gunman burst into the house and singled out Mr Stewart and shot him in the back of the head.
Detectives believe Mr Stewart was shot because he was the nephew of an opponent of Johnny Adair.
Days after the killing, Roy Green, a convicted drug dealer and a senior figure within the ranks of the UDA – and close associate of Adair – was shot dead outside a pub in south Belfast.
(AMcE)
Adair’s lawyer, Frank O’Donoghue QC said a preliminary issue had to be dealt with and he applied for the adjournment of Adair’s application for a writ of Habeas Corpus. It is expected to go forward on Friday instead.
Adair claims his return to prison and continued detention is unjust and contrary to law as well as being in breach of his human rights.
Last week, Secretary of State Paul Murphy revoked Adair’s licence on police advice and he can now be held in Maghaberry jail until 2005.
Adair was released last March having served 50% of his sentence. However on 10 January, Mr Murphy said he was satisfied that Adair was a “danger to others and while he was at liberty was likely to commit further offences”.
The move to return him was prompted by the escalating feud within the UDA over the expulsion of long-time members John White and Adair.
That feud has seen three murders in recent weeks, including that of 22-year-old Jonathan Stewart was shot dead on Boxing Day while at a party in Manor Street in north Belfast. A lone hooded gunman burst into the house and singled out Mr Stewart and shot him in the back of the head.
Detectives believe Mr Stewart was shot because he was the nephew of an opponent of Johnny Adair.
Days after the killing, Roy Green, a convicted drug dealer and a senior figure within the ranks of the UDA – and close associate of Adair – was shot dead outside a pub in south Belfast.
(AMcE)
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