Greysteel psycho back where he belongs...

longrunsthefox · October 27, 2009, 09:13:31 PM

Greysteel killer back behind bars
Torrens Knight was released early due to the Good Friday Agreement
One of the men convicted of murdering eight people in the Greysteel massacre has been sent back to prison after his early release licence was suspended.
Torrens Knight was given 12 life sentences for his part in the 1993 bar murders and for killing four workmen in Castlerock earlier the same year.
He was released under the Good Friday Agreement after serving seven years.
However, last week he was found guilty of attacking two sisters in a bar in Coleraine on 30 May 2008.
Eight people were shot dead when the UFF opened fire inside the Rising Sun bar in the County Londonderry village of Greysteel at Halloween 1993.
One of the gunmen shouted "trick or treat" before opening fire on customers.
In 2005, another of the Greysteel killers, Stephen Irwin, who had also been released early under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, was convicted of slashing a football supporter with a knife during an Irish Cup Final football match.
A week later, his licence was revoked and he was returned to prison.

The Watcher Pat · October 27, 2009, 09:33:38 PM

That's the best news I've heard all day. "Trick or treat" now Torrens back behind bars just in time for halloween.

longrunsthefox · October 27, 2009, 09:36:46 PM

A lot of sh*t went down here but I will never forget the images of him snarling and shouting coming out of court with that poppy in his lapel after the massacre. I remember Protestants at the time saying it was shameful him wearing the poppy. Pure evil and hatred. I doubt if he has a political thought in his head. John Dallat has done good work to push to get this maniac back in jail.

EC Unique · October 27, 2009, 09:37:53 PM

He 'belongs' in a cheap wooden box!

The Watcher Pat · October 27, 2009, 09:39:25 PM

He looked pure evil in the images of him leaving the court at the time.

Hope they never let him out know.

oakleafgael · October 27, 2009, 09:52:07 PM

Quote from: The Watcher Pat on October 27, 2009, 09:39:25 PM
He looked pure evil in the images of him leaving the court at the time.

Hope they never let him out know.

Indeed he was the big man at the courthouse but in essence a coward. The trick or treat comment cant really apply to him as he hid outside and "bottled" the shooting. He comes from not to far from me and has been a nasty piece of work since a young age, his family are decent people. The local bar would be mixed and he tried on a few occassions to stir trouble and got what was coming to him, not to much annoyance from either side of the house. His recent conviction shows him up for what he is.

The biggest question that needs to be asked about him is what information he was passing onto his keepers in the RUC when he was in their employment.

Cúig huaire · October 27, 2009, 09:56:36 PM

Quote from: oakleafgael on October 27, 2009, 09:52:07 PM
his family are decent people.

His brother is a convicted drug dealer.

He should have been put back behind bars as soon as he was arrested for this offence, but his employers were probably doing their best to keep him out.

oakleafgael · October 27, 2009, 10:00:57 PM

Quote from: Cúig huaire on October 27, 2009, 09:56:36 PM
Quote from: oakleafgael on October 27, 2009, 09:52:07 PM
his family are decent people.

His brother is a convicted drug dealer.

He should have been put back behind bars as soon as he was arrested for this offence, but his employers were probably doing their best to keep him out.

5times,

It wasnt his brother who I was referring to.

Cúig huaire · October 27, 2009, 10:01:57 PM

Is his brother adopted?

ziggysego · October 27, 2009, 10:13:36 PM

I'm glad it's back behind bars again.

Quote from: longrunsthefox on October 27, 2009, 09:36:46 PM
A lot of sh*t went down here but I will never forget the images of him snarling and shouting coming out of court with that poppy in his lapel after the massacre. I remember Protestants at the time saying it was shameful him wearing the poppy. Pure evil and hatred. I doubt if he has a political thought in his head.

That's an image from the Troubles I've never forgotten.

Tony Baloney · October 27, 2009, 10:25:16 PM

That boy belongs in a pit in the ground. A lunatic if ever there was one but one of the peace dividends was unleashing these animals back into society. A cage or a pine box is the place for him.

Rav67 · October 28, 2009, 12:25:00 AM

Quote from: oakleafgael on October 27, 2009, 09:52:07 PM
Quote from: The Watcher Pat on October 27, 2009, 09:39:25 PM
He looked pure evil in the images of him leaving the court at the time.

Hope they never let him out know.

Indeed he was the big man at the courthouse but in essence a coward. The trick or treat comment cant really apply to him as he hid outside and "bottled" the shooting. He comes from not to far from me and has been a nasty piece of work since a young age, his family are decent people. The local bar would be mixed and he tried on a few occassions to stir trouble and got what was coming to him, not to much annoyance from either side of the house. His recent conviction shows him up for what he is.

The biggest question that needs to be asked about him is what information he was passing onto his keepers in the RUC when he was in their employment.

Apparently he was a right wee **** from no age. Loreto in Coleraine would have been an all-girls school at the time he was in his teens, a neighbour who went there told me he used to be on their bus part of the way and would always sit down near the girls harassing them giving abuse singing the billy boys etc

nrico2006 · October 28, 2009, 10:07:37 AM

I was delighted when I heard this news earlier, I was angry last week when he was done for the crime but was not automatically put back in to server his sentence. What is the craic with this situation, last week it was left that a decision had to be made to decide whether or not his license was revoked but surely if anyone out on the Good Friday agreement, especially some of the infamous ones like Knight, should be automatically thrown back in for life once they so much as throw rubbish in the street.

Doogie Browser · October 28, 2009, 10:29:54 AM

I have said it before, John Dallat is the single most hard working MLA (surely an oxymoron?) that we have. You may not all agree with his politics, but he is a tenacious wee hoor who is not afraid to face down scum bags from both sides of the community, but because he is a stoop he gets no credit.

Aerlik · October 28, 2009, 10:42:19 AM

The xmas before the Castlerock murders, I was sitting in the pub beside one of the victims. He was a few years younger than me at school. And it could have been five that day. A neighbour of mine was in that workgang and was the last to get picked up for work. That morning his car had a flat wheel and he told the men to go ahead without him, that he'd drive to work when he got the tyre changed. When he got to work there was police everywhere and he at first thought there had been a car accident....what an incredible coincidence.