Supergrass Gary Haggarty is main prosecution witness in case against a man accused of a double murder.
A court has heard more details about the paramilitary crimes of an ex-Ulster Volunteer Force commander who has turned state witness in a murder trial.
But this time police intervened at the gates of the court, telling the men to remove their face coverings before entering the building. The defence spoke about the murder of John Harbinson, a Protestant man, who was handcuffed and beaten to death by a UVF gang on the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast in May 1997.
Haggarty said: "I didn't play a role in the beating. I didn't know he was dead. He was in what was known locally as 'kneebag alley' because of all the punishment beatings that took place there. It was a notorious area for punishment beatings."
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