25.043611 121.5625. 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: its sickening to call it the Gregg initiative when he was a ruthless terrorist.Everyone goes on about Johnny Adair but theyre all as bad as each other. [34], 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. In the later 1980s Snoddy took ill with cancer and many of his duties as brigadier were filled by his ally Joe English. Gregg took this as a threat and, after complaining to senior figures in the West Belfast UDA, ordered the three men to be kneecapped. In 1984, Gregg seriously wounded Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams in an assassination attempt. His 2IC (second-in-command) was also dismissed after being given a sickening baseball bat beating by other masked UVF members. UDA Brigadier for South East Antrim, Gregg - who became a loyalist icon when he shot Sinn Fin chief Gerry Adams - was gunned down in Belfast's docklands area nearly 20 years ago. Charlie Strain, Hugh Cameron, Tommy Hollran and Mark Gourley, who is missing presumed . 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Adair was returned to prison two days later. e 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. Brawls between the two had been frequent and tensions had been growing between the UDA and UVF leading to a drink-fuelled pitched battle between the two groups at the train station. [5], Gregg was sentenced to 18 years in prison; however, he only served nine years before he was released in 1993. [89] The UVF leader in East Belfast, who is popularly known as the "Beast of the East" and "Ugly Doris" also known as by real name Stephen Matthews, ordered the attack on Catholic homes and a church in the Catholic enclave of the Short Strand. Gregg played the bass drum in the UDA-affiliated flute band Cloughfern Young Conquerors, a loyalist flute band which police claimed regularly caused trouble at Orange Order parades. The brigade representatives refused to give any details about how many weapons or how much commercial explosives were destroyed during the day-long exercise. His own earliest memory of the Troubles was the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marches in Derry, a movement to which Gregg and his family were strongly opposed. Stream Rab C - South East Antrim(loyalist) by Mugs1911 on desktop and mobile. [5] The Guardian has identified it as "one of the most dangerous factions". The South East Antrim UDA's tally of violence spanning two decades includes a roll call of unsolved murders. Senior members of South East Antrim UDA want to take out the UVF man who they believe gave up their drug dealers. On February 1 2003, Gregg and fellow UDA man Rab Carson had just returned to Northern Ireland after attending an Old Firm match in Glasgow when their taxi drove into . 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. [65], On 25 November 2020 the Belfast Telegraph reported that the South East Antrim UDA had passed on a threat against one of their journalists. ago. [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. MEDIA SCRUTINY: Press coverage is heaping pressure on Gary Fisher. He sought to portray Gregg as unstable and thuggish and spread a rumour that he was about to be replaced as brigadier. South East Antrim UDA crime boss Gary Fisher is facing an internal revolt with even his closest lieutenants saying his time is up. In 2000 he helped to ensure that a proposal before the Inner Council to initiate the decommissioning of weapons was rejected. [35] Afterward, a lone piper led the cortege to Carnmoney Cemetery where he was buried. "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. Gregg was married with one son and two stepdaughters. . A DEPOSED UVF boss is suspected of stealing more than 250,000 from the terror gang over the past five years. During the course of the melee a Shankill Protestant Boys member managed to gouge out Gregg's eye. Dissident groups and LVF-linked mobsters have also moved in to claim a slice of the action. The South East Antrim UDA's tally of violence spanning two decades includes a roll call of unsolved murders. Carson was described by UDA sources as a dear friend of Greggs and a junior member of the South-East Antrim Brigade. 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. The organisation is now in the grip of a committee of senior paramilitary veterans with Fisher forced to toe the line. Despite his reputation for gangsterism, Greggs failed attack on Gerry Adams had afforded him legendary status and, under the direction of Jackie McDonald, the remaining UDA brigadiers concluded that Adair had to be removed. [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. A mural commemorating Gregg and Carson in Cloughfern. [47] A Police Service of Northern Ireland officer was injured during the disturbance. [34] A bomb attack on Adair's house on 8 January 2003 was blamed on Gregg by John White. [17] According to the Workers' Party (Ireland), English was stood down by the UDA after he had expressed willingness to enter into dialogue with them. They have also asked for an end to historic prosecutions for UVF killings that took place before 2010. Martin Quinn is the brother of the murdered Glenn Quinn, who was beaten to . But Johnny kept trying to justify it. Former PSNI superintendent Ken Pennington said he considers them to be "a criminal cartel that have wrapped themselves in a flag". A UDA member originally from the Woodvale Road had moved to Rathcoole where he had been beaten up after it emerged that he was a friend of Joe English, the former brigadier who had been exiled from the estate by Gregg for his anti-drugs stance. UDA members turned out in force yesterday for the funeral of Mr Robert Carson, who was gunned down alongside the east Antrim UDA "brigadier", Mr John Gregg, in Belfast's docks area at the weekend. "He's already under enough heat from the cops. [61], On 16 January 2019 four men were jailed for life for their involvement in the May 2017 UDA loyalist feud killing of 35-year-old father-of-two Colin Horner. The coffin was draped in the Ulster flag and the flag of the UFF. Four men were convicted of his murder. He spent six months in jail for rioting in 1977. A volley of shots was fired over his coffin by UDA gunmen outside his Rathcoole home. A mural in support of the group lists its areas of activity as being Rathcoole (the mural's location), Rathfern, Monkstown, Glengormley . Spotlight's Gangland: The Murder of Glenn Quinn can be viewed on the BBC iPlayer. Tu-Su 09:00-17:00, closed M. Located just inside the main entrance of Taipei City Hall, this is a good place to know the history and culture of Taipei City. Here, reporter Jennifer O'Leary writes about how the group continues strike fear into communities. [3], Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, "BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | John "Grug" Gregg", "Loyalists on brink of war as UDA chief is shot dead | UK news", "Assassin is kicked out of top UDA post | UK news", "Retaliation inevitable - Just a matter of when", "UDA leaders son gets record payout UTV News", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Gregg_(loyalist)&oldid=1118219468, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 19:42. Soon after two pipe bombs were thrown at Greggs house, and his friend Tommy Kirkhams house was shot at. [39] A new interim leadership was appointed in their stead although the brigade effectively divided between those who supported the wider UDA leadership and those who remained loyal to Fisher. In November 2011, Stuart Gregg received 400,000 compensation for psychological trauma due to having witnessed his fathers murder. Widely known as a man with a fearsome reputation, Gregg was considered a "hawk" in some loyalist circles. 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