James Beck: Jailed for life in 1994 for the murder of a Lisburn Catholic. From Lisburn, Beck received a concurrent seven years for UVF membership. Belfast Crown Court heard that Martin Eamon Watters (27) might have survived the "violent, vicious, severe" beating, but for being thrown head first into the river Lagan in the early hours of August 24th, 1991.
Graham Carlo Bingham: One of five loyalists jailed for life in 1994 for the sectarian murder of a 26-year-old Catholic mother of two, Ann Marie Smyth. The Armagh woman was lured to her death from Hillfoot Glentoran Football Supporters Club after her religion was discovered.
She was strangled and when her body was found on waste ground in February 1992, her throat had been cut. Mr Justice Higgins ruled that Bingham, from Carmeen Drive, Rathcoole, and two others would have to serve at least 25 years before being considered for release.
An appeal failed in March 1997 but three of his accomplices were cleared.
Samuel Cooke: Also jailed for life in 1994 for the murder of Ann Marie Smyth. She was strangled in the back bedroom of Cooke's home in east Belfast on February 23rd, 1992, and her body was dumped on waste ground at Ballarat Street, off Belfast's Raven hill Road. Cooke, from Cregagh Street, Belfast, threatened the judge as he was being led from the dock at Belfast Crown Court.
Pointing his finger at Mr Justice Higgins, he told him: "No doubt we'll win our appeal, then we'll come and see you." His appeal failed in March 1997.
Torrens Knight: He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995 for the Hallowe'en gun attack on the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel, Co Derry, seven years ago. Eight people were killed when UDA gunmen sprayed the premises with bullets. It was claimed the shooting was in retaliation for the IRA's Shankill Road bombing a week earlier.
Knight, from Coleraine, Co Derry, stood guard on the door of the pub with a sawn-off shotgun during the attack and then drove off in a car which he made a bungled attempt to burn, leaving the vehicle covered in vital forensic evidence. He laughed at his victims' relatives as he sat in court during his trial and gave the thumbs-up sign after being given life a dozen times.
Knight was also convicted of the murder of four Catholic workers, shot dead at their van, in the seaside village of Castlerock seven months earlier.
Jeffrey Deeney: He received eight life terms for the Greysteel massacre. Drinkers in the lounge believed they were sick Hallowe'en pranksters when they called out "trick or treat" before spraying the bar with up to 45 bullets. From Bonds Place, Derry, he pleaded guilty and publicly expressed remorse.
Stephen Irwin: Also from Bonds Place, Derry, he too received eight life terms for the Greysteel massacre.
Brian McNeil: He also received eight life terms for the Greysteel massacre. From Mourne Park, Derry, he picked up Knight, Deeney and Irwin in his car after the three had abandoned and attempted to firebomb their getaway car.
Norman Coopey: The Newcastle man was jailed for life 18 months ago for one of the most brutal murders in the recent history of the Troubles. Coopey and an accomplice abducted a 16-year-old Catholic schoolboy, James Morgan, as he hitch-hiked home in July 1997. The boy, who had just done his GCSEs, was tortured and bludgeoned to death with a hammer, then doused with petrol and set on fire.
His body was dumped in a pit full of decomposing animal carcasses on farmland at Clough, a few miles from his home. Coopey has an IQ of only 74 and it is understood he was not a member of any paramilitary group.
Glen Cunningham: He was jailed for 25 years for attempting to murder a Catholic in Glengormley, north Belfast in March 1992. He was identified by a broken tooth found in a crashed getaway vehicle following a gun attack on the Catholic's home.
Aged 32, he is from the Tynedale area of Belfast.
Leslie Henry: Jailed for life in December 1998 for his role in the killing of a Ballymoney RUC officer, Const Greg Taylor (41) on June 1st, 1997. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Robert Carswell, described the attack by Henry, of Eastburn Crescent, Ballymoney, Co Antrim, and others as "a vicious assault, a disgraceful episode which has brought shame on the community in which it took place".
Henry lost his appeal against the conviction in November 1999.
Alistair Stevenson: Also jailed for life for the murder of Const Greg Taylor, who was kicked to death by a loyalist mob. From Vow Road, Ballymoney, Co Antrim, he too lost his appeal last November against the life sentence.
William Lindsay: A member of the UVF, he was jailed for life for the murder of Peter McTasney (24) who was shot dead in his Bawnmore home as he went to rescue his three-year-old niece from an attack in February 1991. He and another man were caught in September 1991 on their way to try for the second time to kill another man at New Mossley. The first attempt two weeks earlier was aborted because too many people were nearby.
Lindsay was also given concurrent terms totalling 133 years for other UVF crimes to which he had confessed, including the two sectarian murder conspiracies on the same man, possessing guns, UVF membership and hijacking.
Ryan Robley: He was given sentences of 14 years and 10 years last February for his part in the "heinous" murders of two lifelong friends, one a Protestant, the other a Catholic, in Poyntzpass, Co Armagh. Philip Allen, a Protestant, and Damien Trainor, a Catholic, were murdered in the Railway Bar on March 3rd, 1998, just weeks before the signing of the Belfast Agreement. They were discussing Mr Allen's forthcoming wedding, at which Mr Trai nor was to have been best man.