One of the loyalists convicted for the Rising Sun pub shooting at Greysteel in Co Derry at Halloween in 1993 has been jailed for attacking two sisters at a bar in Coleraine last year.
40-year-old Torrens Knight, from Ashdale in Coleraine, was convicted of assault and disorderly behaviour last month.
A judge at Antrim Magistrates' Court sentenced the former UFF man to four months in prison.
Knight served seven years in prison for his part in the murders of eight people in the bar shooting and four workmen at Castlerock earlier the same year.
The judge said the attack on the sisters was nasty and vicious and had been extremely traumatic for the victims.
Knight was released early from prison under licence in 2000, but this was suspended after his latest conviction. A defence lawyer said Knight planned to appeal his sentence.
He was granted bail pending an appeal, but under the terms, he will remain in jail because of the suspension of his licence.
The Sentence Review Commission will now decide whether the licence should be revoked. Knight did not speak throughout the hearing.
