Former UVF commander turned police informer Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty to five murders. All five were committed between 1994 and 1997.
The victims were:
Sean McParland (55) a father-of-four from south Belfast shot dead while babysitting his grandchildren at a house in Skegoniel Avenue in north Belfast in February 1994;
Catholic workmen Eamon Fox (44) and Gary Convie (24) shot dead while eating lunch in their car close to a building site on North Queen Street in Belfast in May 1994;
Sean McDermott (37), found shot dead in his car near Antrim in August 1994;
John Harbinson, murdered after being handcuffed and beaten by a UVF gang on the predominantly loyalist Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast in May 1997;
Haggarty also pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the murder of Catholic volunteer worker Peter McTasney, who was shot dead in his north Belfast home in front of his three-year-old daughter in February 1991.
