The PSNI have arrested loyalist killer Torrens Knight and his release from prison has been revoked.
Knight was convicted earlier this month of assaulting two women at a bar in Coleraine, Co Derry, but is appealing against the finding.
He was one of the gunmen involved in the Greysteel atrocity in Co Derry in 1993.
Knight was released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, but he has now been returned to prison to serve 12 life sentences.
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward said: 'Arising from Torrens Knight's conviction on two charges of assault and one of disorderly behaviour I have, following due consideration, suspended his 'early' release licence.
'His convictions last Thursday demonstrate that he has breached the terms of his life licence and that he presents a risk to the safety of others.'
A district judge in Coleraine Magistrates' Court convicted Knight of punching Caroline Nicholl to the ground and then kicking her before turning his fists on her sister Rosemary Sutherland inside the Blackthorn bar in the Co Derry town last May.
