He binged on steroids while inside and strolled out four stone heavier than when he went in. As leader of the loyalist paramilitaries, Adair had and will continue to have at Maghaberry control over the supply of drugs to fellow inmates. But you don t get to his size just lifting weights on their own. We knew they were using steroids for some time but there was little point trying to take the drugs off them. The paramilitaries had been running the jail for years.
Chickens don t go into the henhouse if they know they are going to get eaten alive by the fox.
RUC insiders believe Adair s drug dealing in the Maze gave him an income of 5,000 a week from his cell. He sold cannabis, ecstasy tablets and amphetamines to help the terrorists do their time until they were set free early under the Good Friday Agreement. Adair, suspected by the RUC of ordering at least 20 murders during his reign of evil, claimed in September that he would use his new found freedom to devote his energies to the peace process, which he fully supported. BUT within days of his release he had taken up the reins of the UFF and also created links with the breakaway LVF, a shadowy sectarian group founded by murdered Portadown loyalist, Billy Wright. Adair quickly became an imposing figure on the Shankill and it was only a matter of time before he went to war with the rival UVF for control of the millions yielded by drugs and protection rackets.