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02/12/2009
Loyalist Knight Jailed For Assaults
Loyalist killer Torrens Knight has been jailed for attacking two women in 2008.
The convicted paramilitary will serve four months for beating two sisters in a Coleraine bar last May.
A court found him guilty of assault and disorderly behaviour last month.
He was due to be sentenced last Friday, but the judge's ruling was rescheduled to today.
Knight was one of three UFF gunman who opened fire on the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel in 1993.
Eight people were murdered in the massacre and more than a dozen left wounded.
Knight was sent to prison for seven years for his involvement in the bloody attack, and the murder of four workmen in Castlerock earlier the same year.
He was released under licence in 2000 as part of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, has said Knight's licence will be reviewed.
(PR/GK)
The convicted paramilitary will serve four months for beating two sisters in a Coleraine bar last May.
A court found him guilty of assault and disorderly behaviour last month.
He was due to be sentenced last Friday, but the judge's ruling was rescheduled to today.
Knight was one of three UFF gunman who opened fire on the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel in 1993.
Eight people were murdered in the massacre and more than a dozen left wounded.
Knight was sent to prison for seven years for his involvement in the bloody attack, and the murder of four workmen in Castlerock earlier the same year.
He was released under licence in 2000 as part of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, has said Knight's licence will be reviewed.
(PR/GK)
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