Killer arrested after alleged bar assault

SCENE: The Blackthorn public house where notorious killer Torrens Knight was arrested following an alleged assault against two sisters        MAIN PICTURE: Margaret McLaughlin

ONE of Northern Ireland's most notorious killers, Torrens Knight was arrested by police investigating an alleged assault on two sisters in Coleraine, The Irish News has learned. If charged and convicted, Knight could face a return to prison to serve out the remainder of 12 life sentences imposed after two of the worst loyalist paramilitary attacks in the Troubles.

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