Spence was arrested on charges of extortion in March 1993 and gave up the role of Brigadier with Johnny Adair succeeding him . As Brigadier , Adair continued on the same bloody path that he had followed as military commander . One victim was Noel Cardwell , a mentally sub-normal glass collector at a C Company bar , the Diamond Jubilee , who was seen as a figure of fun by Adair and his cohorts . In December 1993 Cardwell was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital , Belfast after suffering a bad reaction when his drink was spiked with an ecstasy tablet by a member of C Company . Whilst in the hospital he was visited by members of the RUC who asked him who he had been drinking with . Cardwell named the UDA members he was with , having failed to grasp the code of secrecy governing the UDA . In order to send a message to informers , Adair had Cardwell abducted following his release from hospital and subjected to a long and brutal interrogation process . He was shot and left to bleed to death . C Company member Gary McMaster was later sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the murder . Adair and his close ally Dodds were targeted by the IRA in October 1993 when republican intelligence witnessed the two entering Frizzell 's fish shop on the Shankill Road to access West Belfast Brigade headquarters in the room above . The Shankill Road bombing that followed killed nine civilians and one of the bombers but Adair and Dodds had already left by the time the bomb detonated
Shankill Road bombing
Shankill Road bombing
UDA West Belfast Brigade