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Mark Haddock
Mark Haddock has dropped his court case to gag the Sunday World from revealing where he lives.
The 45-year-old was jailed for 12 years earlier this month for his attack on Terry Fairfield outside a pub in Newport Bagnell, Buckinghamshire, in January.
Fairfield needed 27 stitches to his face and neck after the attack.
However, in the high court on Friday, his barrister, Mark Farrell, said: "The injunction and action are no longer sustainable in law due to a change in the plaintiff's circumstances."
The judge, Mr Justice Deeny, said: "I will strike out the action and vacate the order of August 27, 2011."
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Terry Fairfield after Haddock attacked him
Haddock was once the head of a ferocious UVF unit which operated out of Mount Vernon.
He is alleged to have been involved in up to 12 murders.
Former Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan stated in a 2007 report that Haddock and his cohorts were working as Special Branch agents and that the police had colluded with them to protect them from prosecution.
