Johnny Adair - Exile From Northern Ireland and Personal Life

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 football club of the same name. 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. Adair built up a close relationship with these far right activists, even wearing an England shirt during UEFA Euro 2000 that one of the members had given him. 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 to in 2003. Adair was released from prison on 10 January 2005 and immediately headed to Bolton after being taken by helicopter to nearby Manchester. The police in Bolton have questioned his wife, Gina about her involvement in the drugs trade, and his son (nicknamed both 'Mad Pup' and 'Daft Dog') has been charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin. 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 have four children: Jonathan, Natalie, Chloe and Jay.

Several claims have been made about Adair's sexuality by his former girlfriend Jackie "Legs" Robinson, and Michael Stone. Stone claimed in his autobiography that Adair had sex with other male inmates while in prison. 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 also alleged that Adair has been having sex with long-term friend and fellow loyalist Sam McCrory since they were teenagers Adair staunchly denies these claims. 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. In her book In Love With a Mad Dog, Robinson stated that after a UDA/UFF killing had been set up and carried out, he would become highly aroused and afterwards be "particularly wild in bed". It was also alleged that the mere discussion of an operation's details gave him a "sexually charged excitement"; even when the actual killings had been done by others he had personally chosen as hitmen.

Physically Adair is short in stature - being only 5'3 - and muscular with close-cropped hair; he sports a number of tattoos.

In 2003 he became a grandfather for the first time.

After being released, he was almost immediately arrested again for violently assaulting Gina, who suffers from ovarian cancer. Since this episode Johnny Adair is reported as having moved to Scotland, living in Troon in Ayrshire. The Adair family moved to Horwich, Lancashire in early 2003.

In May 2006, it was reported that Adair had received £100,000 from John Blake Publishing for a ghost-written autobiography.

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 called Nick Greger, and their trip to Uganda to build an orphanage. Adair was seen to fire 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.

In August 2011 his Scottish girlfriend gave birth to their first son called Riley and he expressed his desire for his new born son to get a university education.