Belfast Crown Court has imposed a life sentence on Jim Fulton, the leading loyalist who confessed to his involvement in the murder of a 59-year-old grandmother in Co Armagh seven years.
The trial was one of the longest in Northern Ireland's legal history.
Elizabeth O'Neill, 59, died following a pipe bomb attack at her home in Portadown in June 1999.
A leading Loyalist Volunteer Force member, 38-year-old Fulton from Queens Walk in Portadown, confessed to his role in the crime to undercover police.
Today he was found guilty of 48 charges including two counts of conspiring to murder, seven of attempted murder, nine explosives charges and 12 woundings and attempted woundings.
The judgement by Mr Justice Hart ran to 226 pages.
Fulton's co-accused, Muriel Gibson with an address at Clos Trevithick in Cornwall, was acquitted of the murder of a Catholic council worker, Adrian Lamph, from Portadown.
But she was convicted of impeding the arrest and prosecution of his killers. As with Fulton, she was convicted of LVF membership.
After delivering his verdicts, Mr Justice Hart told Fulton that as he had been convicted of murder, 'the only sentence I am empowered to impose is life imprisonment - you will be sentenced, therefore, to life imprisonment'.
