[11] Each geographical area was commanded by a UDA 'Brigadier' and sometimes also had a designated 'Military Commander', 'Intelligence Officer' and 'Quartermaster'. According to a recent MI5/police intelligence assessment shared with Spotlight, the South East Antrim UDA "has access to arms" and is "heavily involved in drugs supply, community coercion, intimidation and other criminality". "He's already under enough heat from the cops. What makes a serial killer and why are we fascinated by them? The South East Antrim UDA's tally of violence spanning two decades includes a roll call of unsolved murders. His 2IC (second-in-command) was also dismissed after being given a sickening . Stream Rab C - South East Antrim(loyalist) by Mugs1911 on desktop and mobile. It is claimed they control "100%" of an illegal drugs network in south-east Antrim, Northern Ireland. He was in attendance along with ex-Labour NI Secretary of State Peter Mandelson and former MI6 operatives. As head of a cash-rich organised crime gang, Fisher has amassed a considerable personal wealth, but even as brigadier his hands are tied when it comes to walking away. His plan to flee to Scotland has also been put on hold after loyalists there were warned not to harbour him. Widely known as a man with a fearsome reputation, Gregg was considered a "hawk" in some loyalist circles. [52], On 29 May 2017 Colin Horner, a friend of Gilmore and former UDA member, was fatally shot in front of his three-year-old son at a busy shopping centre in Bangor, County Down. [67], Threats against journalists and politicians, Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, "Drugs seized in searches linked to South East Antrim UDA", "South East Antrim UDA: 'A criminal cartel wrapped in a flag', "UDA member speaks out about threats and criminality - BBC News", "UDA rebels decommission and condemn McDaid killing", "EXECUTED: Fourth feud killing in four days as loyalist assassins murder UVF man in his flat. In 1984, Gregg seriously wounded Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams in an assassination attempt. These were carried out under the Red Hand Defenders cover name, with some attacks also blamed on the Orange Volunteers who were active in similar attacks at the time. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. The secretive mobster has seen his one-time iron-clad grip on the UDA crime gang loosen in recent months, leaving him Brigadier in name only. Ann Ogilbys brutal murder: Forgotten victims of the Troubles, Kriss Donald The Brutal Racist Killing of an Innocent Schoolboy. [21] Gregg, who was noted for his sectarian beliefs, insisted that such attacks were necessary in order to prevent the "greening" of places such as Carrickfergus and Antrim, a process he claimed had already happened in Glengormley where the Catholic population had experienced significant growth. [32], When the taxi stopped at traffic lights close to the motorway, it was rammed by another taxi which had been hijacked earlier on the Shankill Road. Also his appearance at a Remembrance Sunday service two weeks ago has left those close to him in shock. [66], In July 2021, Doug Beattie, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, told the BBC that the South East Antrim UDA had threatened to kill him twice. "The South East Antrim UDA were part of the UDA inner council," explained Jim McDowell, a former editor of the Sunday World newspaper. Belfast Books Thanks for promoting my book mate. Masked gunmen immediately opened fire on the occupants with automatic weapons. The coffin was draped in the Ulster flag and the flag of the UFF. The secretive mobster looks gaunt and has been described as 'haunted', Fisher is losing his grip on the crime gang. 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[35] Members of Adair's C Company shot and killed Gregg the following month. Having witnessed demographic shifts in Glengormley and Crumlin, traditionally loyalist majority towns that had come to have nationalist majorities on account of loyalists moving out of Belfast, he determined that the same thing would not happen in Carrickfergus and Larne and so launched a campaign of pipe bomb and arson attacks on Catholic homes there (despite these towns having very small Catholic populations). Gregg took this as a threat and, after complaining to senior figures in the West Belfast UDA, ordered the three men to be kneecapped. Gregg was married with one son and two stepdaughters. [40] As of 2014, the South East Antrim Brigade is no longer considered part of the wider UDA and their brigadier does not attend meetings of the organisation's ruling Inner Council. "He was lucky to be let out alive, he knows it, but he's the exception rather than the rule.". [63][64] Patsy McGlone, Stephen Farry, Steve Aiken and Doug Beattie also condemned the attacks and were subsequently warned by the PSNI of threats from the South East Antrim UDA. Masked gunmen immediately opened fire on the occupants with automatic weapons. "And the blunder of the Housing Executive staff being threatened did him no favours either in the area.". "There was an old joke going round the Rathcoole estate that when (name removed) is on the phone he's either talking to Den Elliott or the peelers," the source added. From the 1990s until he was shot dead in 2003 by rival associates, Gregg served as brigadier of the UDA's South East Antrim Brigade. [59], On 3 January 2019 police reported a baby in a pram narrowly escaped injury after homes were attacked in Co Down by South East Antrim UDA members. [19] In late August 1997, the brigade became involved in simmering tensions with fellow loyalist paramilitaries in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The business has expanded rapidly in recent years and is used to launder criminal cash. [5], Gregg was sentenced to 18 years in prison; however, he only served nine years before he was released in 1993. However, in the second half of 2002 he was dragged into the conflict after Adair made him a target in his own attempts to take full control of the UDA. "This isn't the end of it I wouldn't have thought. Both men, who lived on Ferris Avenue, had their houses burnt out during the attack. He is currently recovering at his mother's home in the Rathcoole estate after last week's beating. This followed in summer 2002 when a community centre was taken over for this purpose although Greggs UDA objected and daubed the building with the word tout. [10] He called on the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to establish an auxiliary police "clinic" on the estate, which had no permanent police building, so that locals concerned about crime could have somewhere to go. Senior members of South East Antrim UDA want to take out the UVF man who they believe gave up their drug dealers. id="addMyFavs"> Amongst the Brigade's most notorious attacks during the Troubles was the attempted killing of Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams in 1984. Posted 2 years ago 2 years ago. Gregg was given a paramilitary funeral which was attended by thousands of mourners, including senior UDA members Jackie McDonald, Jim Gray, Sammy Duddy and Michael Stone. [62], On 8 May 2020 a number of journalists working for the Sunday Life and Sunday World newspapers were warned by the PSNI about imminent attacks against journalists by the South East Antrim UDA. [30] A bomb attack on Adair's house on 8 January 2003 was blamed on Gregg by White, although Adair himself was returned to prison two days later after a dossier detailing his drug-dealing and racketeering activities was shown to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Paul Murphy. "The UDA is the biggest paramilitary group in Rathcoole, much bigger than the UVF, and there are some UDA men in the estate who would gladly do the job. In response, graffiti appeared around the walls of Rathcoole in December, stating: Daft Dog and White beware. Members of the loyalist flute band, Cloughfern Young Conquerors dressed in uniform accompanied the coffin. The South East Antrim UDA's tally of violence spanning two decades includes a roll call of unsolved murders. Senior members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando also attended. The juxtaposition of this initiative with the name of Gregg was condemned by the mother of a Catholic who had been killed by members of the South-East Antrim Brigade in 2000 as she argued "it's sickening to call it the Gregg initiative when he was a ruthless terrorist.Everyone goes on about Johnny Adair but they're all as bad as each other". South East Antrim Brigade mural in Ballymena honouring Gregg. DIE KOMMENDEN sind nationalpolitisch-strmungsbergreifend. Former PSNI superintendent Ken Pennington said he considers them to be "a criminal cartel that have wrapped themselves in a flag". [22] Around this time Gregg spearheaded an initiative to significantly increase recruitment into the South East Antrim Brigade. . The veteran loyalist, who was 'brigadier' of its South East Antrim unit, was kicked out of the organisation last week. Read about our approach to external linking. The killing of Mr Horner, gunned down in front of his three-year-old son Oscar in the Bangor carpark of Sainsbury supermarket, was linked at the time to the South East Antrim UDA feud which claimed the life of his friend, Carrickfergus loyalist Geordie Gilmore, two months earlier. [23] As a result of the attack, three Woodvale UDA members went to Gregg and complained about the attack. Gregg joined the Ulster Young Militants (UYM), the youth wing of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association (UDA) at the age of 14. [18] In 2000, he helped to ensure that a proposal before the Inner Council to initiate the decommissioning of weapons was rejected. Wikizero - Ulster Volunteer Force . This week, a BBC Spotlight programme on the murder of Glenn Quinn investigated the savagery at the heart of one of Northern Ireland's largest loyalist gangs - the South East Antrim Ulster Defence Association (UDA). [37] In response to the criticism from the rest of the UDA leadership, Fisher withdrew the South East Antrim brigade from the UDA and reconstituted it as a separate movement. Tensions in South East Antrim between the UDA and the UVF were already high after a summer of incidents and disagreements. [21] Nonetheless he was not keen to antagonise Adair and so, along with McFarland, McDonald and Jimbo Simpson, accepted his invitation to attend a "Loyalist Day of Culture" organised by Adair on the Lower Shankill on 19 August 2000. At the service on 6 February, UVF/RHC representatives joined the UDA leadership in a show of anti-Adair solidarity. Adams was in a taxi near Belfast City Hall with some associates when another car containing John 'Grug' Gregg and two fellow Rathcoole UDA members pulled up alongside and opened fire on Adams. UDA. A volley of shots was fired over his coffin by UDA gunmen outside his Rathcoole home. On 4 September Langhammers car was blown up outside his Whiteabbey home by Greggs men, although Langhammer himself was asleep at the time and no one was injured. [15] A senior police source once described him as a man driven by "pure and absolute bigotry". They in no way reflect my own opinions and I take no responsibility for any inaccuracies or factual errors. In late August, Adair had even managed to have Gregg stood down as Brigadier for not being militant enough and replaced by one of Adairs own associates. . The Carrick UDA boss, like his counterpart in Monkstown, the other major loyalist housing area in this part of south-east Antrim, is a minor criminal and drug dealer, who has risen to the position . John Gregg (UDA) The man who shot Gerry Adam? His 2IC (second-in-command) was also dismissed after being given a sickening baseball bat beating by other masked UVF members. [49] The targets of the attack were reported locally as being two brothers who had been involved in a scuffle with three UDA members the night before. [31] Carson was described by UDA sources as a "dear friend" of Gregg's and a junior member of the South-East Antrim Brigade. fifty skinheads appeared from nowhere, many of them wearing Chelsea and Rangers football scarves and covered in Loyalist and swastika tattoos. South East Antrim UDA crime boss Gary Fisher is facing an internal revolt with even his closest lieutenants saying his time is up. As a result of the attack, three Woodvale UDA members went to Gregg and complained about the attack. Themen: Politische Wochenschau, politische Theorie, Artikel und Berichte zu Themen rund um berwachung, Repression, Wirtschaft, Soziales, Befreiungsnationalismus, Antiimperialismus, Zeitgeschichte und Literaturhinweise He said there were about 2,000 members of the UDA in the south east Antrim . [27] On 8 December a bomb was found under Gregg's car, apparently placed there by one of Adair's allies from the Loyalist Volunteer Force. Close pal Clifford 'Trigger' Irons is currently out on bail awaiting trial on drugs charges. In 1984, Gregg seriously wounded Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams in an assassination attempt. "They'll let Fisher take the fall before replacing him, they don't see any point in putting someone else in now only for him to be targeted.". Gregg served as brigadier of the UDA's South East Antrim Brigade. A mural in support of the group lists its areas of activity as being Rathcoole (the mural's location), Rathfern, Monkstown, Glengormley . And one-time trusted lieutenant Colin Simms is in disgrace after being linked with the murder in Carrick a year ago of Glenn Quinn. The gang's boss in the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast was another expelled. Nowadays, pockets of the town remain on edge since the murder of a local man, Glenn Quinn, by the South East Antrim UDA. There is a belief in the organisation that the Task Force is building a case against Fisher and senior figures in SEA are content to leave him in place. Much of this activity was inspired by Greggs personal hatred of Catholics. The veteran loyalist, who was 'brigadier' of its South East Antrim unit, was kicked out of the organisation last week. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. [60], On 4 January police investigated SEA UDA graffiti sprayed on eleven properties. "But Gary Fisher doesn't want the hassle of sanctioning something against him. In return for ending criminality they have been promised 5m of funding for projects in loyalist areas from the 50m Fresh Start package to end paramilitarism. [23] Trevor Lowry (aged 49) was beaten to death in Glengormley by UDA members under Gregg's command on 11 April 2001 after he was mistaken for a Catholic. [8] Under Gregg the South-East Antrim Brigade were prepared to ignore the terms of the loyalist ceasefire, such as on 25 April 1997 when he dispatched a five-man team to Carrickfergus to set fire to a Catholic church in retaliation for a similar attack on a Protestant church in East Belfast (this earlier attack had actually been organised by dissident loyalists seeking to provoke the UDA into returning to violence). [6] His deputy Rab Carson was killed in the same attack, with both men having just returned from Scotland where they were attending a Rangers F.C. [25], By September 2002, Adair had even circulated stories to contacts in the media that Gregg was under death threat from the UDA. In a move that was not universally popular in the region, Fisher allowed the Shoukris and their ally Alan McClean to live under South East Antrim Brigade protection and even attend meetings of the brigade's commanders. Gary Fisher, a close associate of Tommy Kirkham, succeeded Gregg as brigadier. During the course of the melee a Shankill Protestant Boys member managed to gouge out Gregg's eye,[12] although it is also claimed that Gregg lost his eye due to a fight with republicans at the same parade. Old tensions resurfaced however, and after Adair's men fought with UVF supporters at the Shankill's Rex Bar, Adair launched a pogrom of the lower Shankill, forcing out all UVF members and their families and initiating a loyalist feud. Since his release, Shoukri had resumed his position as 'brigadier' of the north Belfast UDA while his brother Andre was in prison. [20] This followed in summer 2002 when a community centre was taken over for this purpose although Gregg's UDA objected and daubed the building with the word "tout". The UDA was only proscribed - or declared illegal - in 1992 and, as the Troubles ended, the group began to fracture. @caolan-mclaughlin-844507501 this is a UDA song ya muppet why u put f the uvf know yer history kid. Following his release from prison, Gregg returned to Rathcoole where he again became an important figure, taking a central role in the illegal drug trade, with his Rathcoole stronghold a centre of narcotics.Sometime after the Combined Loyalist Military Command of 1994 he succeeded Joe English, who had emerged as a leading figure in the Ulster Democratic Party, as brigadier of the South-East Antrim UDA. [35] Afterward, a lone piper led the cortege to Carnmoney Cemetery where he was buried. His organisation has come under intense scrutiny from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force and he is known to be anxious to get out of the crime business before he is scooped. "And if they are a defender of anything, it is their own criminal interests.". Gregg took this as a threat and, after complaining to senior figures in the West Belfast UDA, ordered the three men to be kneecapped. Spotlight made contact with a former senior PSNI officer who was at the forefront of policing efforts against the gang. Snoddy died from the illness in September 1988 and English immediately succeeded him. Read about our approach to external linking. "Some families had no involvement in drugs at all but still had to pay to escape being put out, or even worse. Gregg was the most senior UDA member killed since South Belfast brigadier John McMichael was blown up by the IRA in 1987. . However in the second half of 2002 he was dragged into the conflict after Adair made him a target in his own attempts to take full control of the UDA. [2] Since 2007 the South East Antrim Brigade has operated independently of the UDA following a fall-out. "But he's only delaying the inevitable and will eventually have to account for the 250,000 that's disappeared.". Security sources say that with more than 2,000 members, the South East Antrim UDA is one of Northern Ireland's largest paramilitary gangs. Under Gregg, drug-dealing became a major problem in brigade areas, particularly Rathcoole, with Gregg himself said to have a leading role in the illicit trade. Gregg's 18-year-old son Stuart and another man were also in the vehicle but neither sustained injuries in the shooting attack. [47] A Police Service of Northern Ireland officer was injured during the disturbance. Adair was returned to prison two days later. The Sunday World also understands Fisher has become increasingly paranoid, believing there is an informant who is passing information about his movements to the PSNI. On 8 February 2010, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the Brigade had completed decommissioning. He called on the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to establish an auxiliary police clinic on the estate, which had no permanent police building, so as locals concerned about crime could have somewhere to go. It's believed he fears sparking a new intra-loyalist feud, piling even more pressure on the faction which has been facing a police crackdown. "But then what happened was that the UDA began to splinter into criminal gangs, criminal fiefdoms.". Catholic workman Gary Moore was killed in Monkstown in 2000 in another killing attributed to Greggs unit. At the service on 6 February, UVF/RHC representatives joined the UDA leadership in a show of anti-Adair solidarity. He later became part of the UDA South East Antrim Brigade. Gregg, seated in the backseat, was hit at close range and died instantly. Home. He told author Ian S. Wood that he had only supported the Combined Loyalist Military Command ceasefire in an effort to ensure the release of imprisoned friends. In late August 1997 this band was one of a number of similar flute bands to travel to Derry for the annual Apprentice Boys of Derry march through the city centre. Formed in 1971 from a number of loyalist vigilante groups, the UDA's stated aims were to protect unionist communities from attacks by republican paramilitaries, but it went on to kill hundreds of people during the Troubles using a cover name - the Ulster Freedom Fighters. [3] He spent six months in jail for rioting in 1977. [53] Gilmore died the following day, with the incident described as part of an ongoing feud in the town. The brigade representatives refused to give any details about how many weapons or how much commercial explosives were destroyed during the day-long exercise. [1][2] It is claimed they control "100%" of an illegal drugs network in south-east Antrim, Northern Ireland. "Fisher can't make a decision, he's not allowed to make a decision and they're just keeping him there, partly because no one wants the job and they're waiting until the heat from the Task Force eases. 2023 BBC. [46], In March 2014 the South East Antrim Brigade was widely reported as being behind a "rampage" in which up to 100 people, some of them wearing masks, attacked a number of residential properties in Larne. 'Break the silence about who killed my brother', Cannabis factory uncovered in UDA searches, House of alleged senior UDA member seized, Angry protests erupt over Greek rail disaster, India PM Modi urges G20 to overcome divisions, Aboriginal spears taken in 1770 to return to Sydney, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Law enforcement agencies see the loosening of Fisher's control as an opportunity. Charlie Strain, Hugh Cameron, Tommy Hollran and Mark Gourley, who is missing presumed murdered. Simms' demise was the catalyst for the disintegration of Fisher's power base. The Reaper is coming for you. The coffin was draped in the Ulster flag and the flag of the UFF. "Drugs is the big one. The Sunday World understands he is desperate for an exit strategy that will take him out of the firing line. [8] Gregg, Colin Gray and Gerry Welsh were immediately arrested by the waiting British Army, who had doctored the bullets to reduce their lethality. "Some middle-ranking UDA men in the estate wanted him to be shot dead because touting on fellow loyalists to the police is as bad as it gets," said the source. UVF chiefs fear that any deal they do with the British government about going out of business in return for funding and an amnesty will be dependent on Lisa's body being returned to her heartbroken family. The views and opinions expressed in this documentary/ies and page are soley intended to educate and provide background information to those interested in the Troubles of Northern Ireland. His role in the murder was covered up for years by his father's best friend - the deposed UVF South East Antrim commander. Watch: Peter Crouch sings the Fields of Athenry with Liverpool fans in Dublin pub, We need government and we need it now Mary Lou McDonald. Convicted killer driver and drug offender Simms was once Fisher's muscle entrusted with keeping a small army of drug dealers in Carrick in check. "The vast majority of it comes in from down south, from one of the well-known crime gangs down there. Members of this brigade were believed to be behind the killings of Catholic postman Danny McColgan, Protestant teenager Gavin Brett and Trevor Lowry (the latter kicked to death in the mistaken belief he was a Catholic), and a spate of pipe bomb attacks on the homes of Catholics. [19], In late 2001, Gregg's reign of terror in Rathcoole, where drug dealing, knee-capping and savage beatings were the norm, was challenged by local British Labour Party Councillor Mark Langhammer, who also objected to Gregg's close links to neo-Nazi groups in Great Britain. In 1984, Gregg seriously wounded Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams in an assassination attempt. Sources in Carrickfergus say that while he retains the . [48] Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton described the incident as a "power trip" by the brigade, and suggested that it was an attempt by the group to assert their dominance over the local community. "When Gary was in complete control, there would have been no suggestion of any leaks, it was a tight, tight operation. 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