A senior LVF figure will have to serve at least 25 years in jail for the sectarian murder of Portadown grandmother Elizabeth O'Neill.
Handing down the minimum jail term at Belfast Crown Court to William Jim Fulton, Mr Justice Hart also jailed 38-year-old Fulton for 28 years for the attempted murder of four police officers at the height of the Drumcree standoff in July 1996.
In all Fulton, from Queen's Walk in Portadown, was convicted of 48 terrorist related charges including aiding and abetting the murder of Mrs O'Neill.
Other charges included two counts of conspiring to murder, seven of attempted murder, nine explosive charges, 12 woundings and attempted woundings and seven firearm offences.
One of those included possessing the gun which was used to murder Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick, one attempted robbery, one of perverting the course of justice, two false imprisonments, two hijackings, two drug dealing offences, being a member of the LVF and directing the activities of it.
His co-accused, 57-year-old Muriel Gibson, was jailed for eight years after the 'enthusiastic supporter' of the deadly organisation was convicted of impeding the arrest and prosecution of the killer of catholic council worker Adrian Lamph, withholding information about a shooting, two charges of possessing firearms, two of having explosives and also of being a member of the LVF.
