Andy Frain marching in Belfast this year
Andy Frain
One of Britain’s most notorious football hooligans has joined a loyalist flute band in east Belfast, we can reveal.
Chelsea Headhunter, and far right fanatic, Andy ‘The Nightmare’ Frain is an ‘honorary’ member of the Tullycarnet Flute Band in east Belfast.
The 50-year-old, who was famously exposed by the Sunday World’s Donal McIntyre during an undercover BBC film, took part in a loyalist march in London on Saturday.
Our picture shows Frain posing with other loyalists after the ‘Lord Carson Memorial parade’.
The annual parade celebrates UVF founder Edward Carson and the Great war.
Frain was also pictured in Belfast on the Twelfth of July marching with the Tullycarnet Flute Band.
He made his trip to Belfast just a few months after being released from yet another spell in jail for football related violence.
As reported in the Sunday World last year Frain was sentenced to two years for orchestrating a massive bloody battle in Glasgow Central Station in which one man had his ear bitten off.
Frain was part of a loyalist mob consisting of Rangers and Chelsea hooligans which had organised by mobile phone a confrontation with a Hibernian hooligan firm who call themselves the Capital City Service mob.
He was sentenced to two years in jail but only served a fraction of that and was released earlier this year.
Loyalist sources say Frain, who has links to Combat 18 and the English Defence League, is a regular visitor to Belfast.
“He comes over quite a lot and gets treated like royalty,” said one source.
“He’s a celebrity hooligan and the loyalists love it because he’s been involved in all kinds of fights.
“He got to know the boys in Tullycarnet through Rangers. His Chelsea firm often team up with the Rangers Inter-City firm whenever there’s something big being organised.
“Frain is always saying he’d love to get involved in a fight with some republicans in Belfast.”
Frain posted pictures of himself marching up the Newtownards Road in July and is also seen posing with machine guns and UDA flags.
The brutal racist, who once unwittingly boasted of slashing the throat of an off-duty policeman while BBC covert cameras were recording his every move, led a group of 70 hooligans in a violent riot in front of children and their families in Glasgow in 2012.
Frain was jailed for orchestrating the riot through text messages between Rangers, Chelsea and Hibernian thugs.
Sixteen others got sentences totalling 41 years. Despite Frain claiming on facebook that he hoped his most recent stint in jail would be his last – he has continued trying to organise fights with other hooligans via the social networking site.