LOYALIST killer turned supergrass Gary Haggarty has been told he will be sentenced next month.
Haggarty, whose address was given c/o PSNI at Knocknagoney, will be sentenced for more than 200 offences - including five counts of murder - on Friday December 1.
Mr Justice Colton yesterday told Belfast Crown Court he had received all the relevant information and documents related to the case.
The judge also confirmed that he will be sentencing 45-year old Haggarty "on the basis he had been an assisting offender and had done so in an agreement he entered in to with the prosecution".
After the date was agreed by both the Crown and defence, Mr Justice Colton remanded the defendant back into custody.
Haggarty will be sentenced for a wide range of offences linked to UVF activity in and around south east Antrim and north Belfast in the 1990s, but could walk free because of time already served on remand and his co-operation with police.
It emerged this week that evidence from him will be used against a man accused of murdering two men, in what is expected to be the only prosecution to arise from his supergrass testimony.
James Smyth (51), from Forthriver Link in north Belfast, is expected to be charged with the killings of Catholic workmen Gary Convie and Eamon Fox at a building site in the city in May 1994. He has previously denied the charges.
However, it has been confirmed that more than a dozen other suspects, including two former police officers, implicated by Haggarty in offences will not be prosecuted because his testimony was deemed insufficient without corroborating evidence.
