 Adair reacted by denouncing Spence as a "liar and a tout" in a carefully orchestrated media campaign over the following months.Spence, who had tired of Adair's extremism, had helped to facilitate McDonald's assault on the Lower Shankill.Spence was loyal to the new regime on the Shankill, and in late 2003 he once again took over as Brigadier in West Belfast when Adair's replacement, Spence's old rival Mo Courtney, was arrested.