A leading loyalist paramilitary has been charged with the murder of a rival during a feud eight years ago.
Mark Haddock, who is linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force, is charged with the murder of Tommy English, a member of the Ulster Defence Association.
Haddock was arrested in prison yesterday where he is serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting a nightclub doorman.
The prosecution in this case confirmed that the evidence against Haddock came from two witnesses who had previously been charged with the murder of Tommy English.
Mr English, 40, was shot in front of his wife and children in north Belfast in October 2000.
Haddock has been named in court as a senior figure in the rival loyalist paramilitary group the UVA, which at the time was involved in a violent turf war with the UDA.
In January 2007 he was reported to have been a police Special Branch agent following the publication of an investigation by former Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan.
She found that police colluded with Haddock's north Belfast UVF gang, a group that was behind more than a dozen murders in the area.
He was arrested at Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim yesterday morning and taken to a police detention centre for questioning by officers belonging to the Historical Enquiries Team, a special unit set up to investigate unsolved killings during the Troubles.
Haddock survived a murder attempt in 2006, but was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and false imprisonment for attacking Trevor Gowdy outside a social club on the outskirts of Belfast in December 2002.
Last month, two brothers - David Stewart, 38, and Robert Stewart, 34, - from Newtownabbey, north Belfast, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting Mr English's murder.
Both also admitted membership of the UVF.
