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POWER HOSE: At first
glance, killer Torrens
Knight looks as though
he’s holding a gun instead
of a power hose and (left)
the hate-filled UFF
murderer after being
led from court
Eerie snap of ‘Trick or Treat’
killer Torrens on anniversary
of brutal Greysteel massacre
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www.sundaylife.co.uk Sunday Life 31 OCTOBER 2010
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE
CIARAN BARNES
Crime Reporter
THIS is the unrepentant face
of a Halloween ghoul going
about his everyday chores on
the anniversary of the massacre
he masterminded.
He's Greysteel killer Torrens
Knight, whose UFF gang
screamed ‘trick or treat' as they
murdered eight innocents in
the Rising Sun bar on the night
of October 30, 1993.
Since getting out of jail in
August, the monster has gone
to great lengths to hide his
face, refusing to answer the
door and hardly leaving the
house.
Sneaky Knight, 41, has managed
to avoid being properly
pictured for almost two
decades. But today — just
hours after the 17th anniversary
of the Greysteel atrocity —
Sunday Life removes the mask
from one of Ulster's most notorious
paramilitaries.
While the families of the
Greysteel victims spent the
past week mourning their
loved ones, carefree Knight
passed the anniversary by
doing household chores.
We photographed the mass
murderer, who has been convicted
of 12 sectarian killings,
washing his car outside the
Coleraine home he shares with
partner Carolyn McCartney.
And in chilling echoes of his
blood-soaked past, Knight was
snapped holding a power-hose
in exactly the same way he
gripped the gun he used to cut
down his victims.
SDLP politician John Dallat,
whose friend Gerry Dalrymple
was murdered by the psycho,
said he was sickened by our
images.
But he praised Sunday Life
for revealing the face of the
multiple-killer, saying it was
important that all of Northern
Ireland knows what he looks
like.
“Torrens Knight can wash
his fancy jeep all he likes, but
what he can't wash away is the
blood of the 12 people he murdered,”
said Mr Dallat.
“Fair play to Sunday Life for
tracking him down and taking
his picture.
“He won't be able to hide
now because everyone knows
what he looks like. You've
unmasked the monster.”
On this weekend 17 years
‘TRICK OR TREAT’
KNIGHT-MARE ON
Sunday Life reveals
face of Greysteel
killer 17 years on
WHY SO SHY? Mass killer Torrens Knight arrives at Coleraine Court last year during his trial for
assaulting two sisters and (below) his partner Carolyn answers the door to our man Ciaran Barnes
ago, Knight led a UFF death
squad to the door of the Rising
Sun bar in Greysteel, Co Derry.
The lounge was packed with
Catholic and Protestant
drinkers enjoying Halloween.
Twisted Knight, then 24,
covered the door with a shotgun
and ordered his henchmen
to spray the room with
machine gun fire. As the bullets
struck their helpless victims
one of the heartless thugs
screamed ‘trick or treat'.
Eight people were killed, six
Catholics and two Protestants,
and 19 others were injured in
the brutal attack.
But this wasn't Knight's first
foray into murder — seven
months earlier in March 1993
he was part of a UFF gang that
gunned down four Catholic
workmen at nearby Castlerock.
In 1994 Knight was given 12
life sentences for his role in the
massacres. During one court
appearance he shouted sectarian
abuse as he was led to court.
But he was freed from jail in
2000 under the terms of the
Good Friday Agreement.
Instead of trying to go
straight Knight took to drinking
heavily and was involved in
a number of pub brawls.
In December 2009, two
months after being returned to
prison when his early release
licence was suspended, the
coward was thrown back in jail
for beating up two sisters.
He broke Rosemary
Sutherland's nose and knocked
Caroline Nicholl to the ground
during a disturbance in
Coleraine's Blackthorn Bar.
Knight was returned to
prison with his victims thinking
he would never again see
the light of day.
The loyalist had been
warned when freed under the
terms of the Good Friday
Agreement that if convicted of
another crime he would have
to serve his 12 life sentences.
However, Knight was controversially
released early for a
second time in August having
served just over nine months.
Since then he has been lying
low at his home in the quiet
Ashdale area of Coleraine.
Locals say he is paranoid
about being photographed — a
fact borne out by the serial
killer arriving in court last year
with a scarf wrapped round his
face and a hood pulled over his
head.
But Sunday Life has tracked
him down and can reveal just
how much he has changed in
17 years.
Balding Knight, who has put
on a fair bit of weight, has told
pals he has found God and is
now a Born Again Christian.
Last night John Dallat called
on the killer to prove his
claims by naming the other
members of the Greysteel murder
gang who were not convicted.
He said: “If Torrens Knight
has found God he should walk
into the nearest police station
and name those involved in
Greysteel who were not convicted.
“If he did that maybe the
public would start looking at
him a bit differently. Until then
he will be nothing more than
an embarrassment and a man
who brings shame to
Coleraine.”

31 OCTOBER 2010 Sunday Life
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NEWS | 5
THUG UNMASKED
ASHDALESTREET
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: Knight (left) and psycho Stephen Irwin
FACE OF HATRED: Knight shouts sectarian slogans as he leaves court during his
murder trial and (left) looking bald and pudgy, the killer washes his flash motor
GUILTY: Brian McNeill (left) tries to hide his face and Jeffrey Deeney
MIXED FORTUNES
FOR KILLER GANG
RAP SHEET: Sisters Caroline Nicholl and Rosemary Sutherland, who were
assaulted by Knight, with SDLP MLA John Dallat and (below) the 1993 aftermath
TORRENS KNIGHT’S Greysteel
gang have had mixed fortunes
since getting out of jail 10
years ago.
The evil four — Knight,
Stephen Irwin, Jeffrey Deeney
and Brian McNeill — were all
jailed for life in 1994 for their
roles in the UFF slaughter.
They were freed early in
2000 under the terms of the
Good Friday Agreement.
But their release came with
a warning that if convicted of
further crime they would have
to serve the remainder of
their life sentences.
After getting out of jail
Knight moved back to his
native Coleraine.
In October 2009 he was
returned to jail when his early
release licence was
suspended. Two months later
he was jailed for beating up
two sisters following an
argument in a pub.
But the mass murderer was
freed in August having served
just more than nine months
leading to claims that he was
being treated with kid gloves
because he is an informant.
The main Greysteel
gunman — psychotic Stephen
Irwin who shouted ‘trick or
treat’ as he opened fire in the
bar — also fell foul of the law
after he was freed.
He is currently in
Maghaberry Prison serving
the remainder of his life
sentence after being
convicted of slashing a
football fan during violence
between rival supporters at
the 2004 Irish Cup Final.
The 40-year-old, who was
living on Belfast’s Shankill
Road at the time, was caught
on camera wielding the blade.
Unlike his pals Knight and
Irwin, Greysteel killer Jeffrey
Deeney has stayed out of the
spotlight since his release.
Whilst in jail the 40-yearold
Derry loyalist swore
revenge after the INLA shot
dead his brother, Trevor
Deeney, in April 1998.
But in the 10 years since
his release, Deeney has not
attracted police attention.
The fourth member of the
Greysteel gang, getaway
driver Brian McNeill, has also
avoided any trouble that could
jeopardise his early release.