Greysteel killer jailed after release licence suspended

NOTORIOUS LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight has been sent back to prison after his early release licence was suspended.

NOTORIOUS LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight has been sent back to prison after his early release licence was suspended.

He was one of those released from jail under the Belfast Agreement.

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Shaun Woodward made the decision after Knight was found guilty of attacking two women in a bar in Coleraine, Co Derry, on May 30th, 2008.

He was detained in Coleraine and returned to prison to serve the remainder of 12 life sentences for his part in the 1993 Greysteel murders and for killing four workmen in Castlerock earlier the same year. Knight was a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters gang that burst into the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel, Co Derry, on Halloween in 1993 and opened fire.

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The killings are always associated with the infamous “trick or treat” phrase shouted by one of the gunmen before they started shooting.

Éanna Ó Caollaí

Éanna Ó Caollaí

Iriseoir agus Eagarthóir Gaeilge An Irish Times. Éanna Ó Caollaí is The Irish Times' Irish Language Editor, editor of The Irish Times Student Hub, and Education Supplements editor.