Jackie Thompson

Jackie Thompson
Jackie Thompson
Birth name	John Thompson
Nickname(s)	Fat Jackie
Born	13 November 1963 (age 60); Belfast, Northern Ireland
Allegiance	Ulster Defence Association
Rank	Brigadier
Unit	C Company, West Belfast Brigade
Conflict	The Troubles

John Albert Thompson (born 13 November 1963^[1]), commonly known as Fat Jackie, is a Belfast-born Northern Irish loyalist activist who was a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Thompson was close to Johnny Adair during Adair's time as leader of the UDA West Belfast Brigade and remained one of the last of the "C Company" members to support Adair. Thompson was briefly brigadier in West Belfast in 2003 between Adair's imprisonment and his fall.^[2]

^ Full name and date of birth are taken from police mugshots as pictured in David Lister & Hugh Jordan, Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2004
^ Lister & Jordan, p. 28

[1] Full name and date of birth are taken from police mugshots as pictured in David Lister & Hugh Jordan, Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2004

[Mad28-2] Lister & Jordan, p. 28

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