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Alan McCullough (July 1981 – 28 May 2003) was a leading Northern Irish loyalist and a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). He served as the organisation's military commander for the West Belfast Brigade's notorious C Company which was then headed by Johnny Adair. McCullough was suspected of having organised the killing of South East Antrim brigadier John Gregg in February 2003. Gregg was a rival of Adair's who enjoyed much popularity among loyalists on account of his attempted assassination of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 1984. The killing provoked outrage amongst the other UDA leaders and as a result Adair and his associates, including McCullough, were forced to leave Northern Ireland. McCullough returned to Belfast in April 2003 but a month later he disappeared from his home in the company of two men. On 5 June his body was found in a shallow grave in Mallusk. The UDA claimed responsibility for the killing using their cover name Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). ==Ulster Defence Association== Alan McCullough was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland into a loyalist Ulster Protestant family, the youngest of six children. He had four sisters and a brother, Kenny. He was brought up in Denmark Street in the Lower Shankill Road area. His father William "Bucky" McCullough was a prominent UDA member gunned down by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) outside his home on 16 October 1981 when McCullough was three months old.〔("Family fears for fate of missing loyalist". ''The Guardian''. Rosie Cowan. 2 June 2003 ) Retrieved 12 May 2011〕 It was believed by many inside the UDA that he had been set up by UDA fundraiser and racketeer Jim Craig.〔Wood, p.352〕 McCullough's family background led him to join the UDA at an early age. From an early age McCullough had idolised Johnny Adair.〔Wood, p. 302〕 and he would soon become a trusted ally of the Brigadier.〔 He had been one of a number of members of Ulster Young Militants whom Adair had promoted to the ranks of C Company around 2002, all of whom looked up to Adair as a father figure and were loyal to him personally.〔McDonald & Cusack, p. 377〕 McCullough, who had joined UYM aged sixteen, wore a graven image of his late father on a gold chain around his neck and often spoke of wanting to rise up the ranks in the UDA in order to kill republicans in revenge for his father's death.〔Lister & Jordan, p. 335〕 McCullough had initially annoyed Adair when in early 2002 he and Adair's son Jonathan "Mad Pup" Adair had followed a young customer from the drug-dealing flats used by C Company and attacked and mugged him. The boy, who had been wearing a Catholic school uniform at the time, told his mother who complained to John White who in turn assured her that something would be done about it. Adair insisted that the drugs flat, which was C Company's main source of income, should be kept free from sectarianism and that all money should be welcomed regardless of source. As a result Adair, who was in prison at the time, sent out word to his "provost marshal" (as the organisation called the member charged with maintaining internal order and discipline) Tommy Potts to punish McCullough and his son and as a result Potts and his squad administered punishment beatings to both McCullough and "Mad Pup".〔McDonald & Cusack, pp. 391-392〕 Despite McCullough's transgression Adair still held him in high esteem and soon after his release from prison he appointed McCullough commander of C Company, a role Adair himself had held before becoming West Belfast brigadier.〔McDonald & Cusack, p. 392〕 McCullough had replaced Adair's old friend Mo Courtney in the role, after the two had become estranged over Adair's treatment of their mutual friend Winkie Dodds. Courtney as a result was forced off the Shankill, allowing McCullough the opportunity to assume command of C Company.〔Lister & Jordan, pp. 328-329〕 By this time McCullough was ranked as a lieutenant within the UDA. He was, however, soon to become embroiled in an internal UDA feud. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan McCullough (loyalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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