The following are victims of killings allegedly linked to a RUC informant.
Sharon McKeena
Sharon McKenna
A 27-year-old single Catholic taxi driver from Newtownabbey, north of Belfast.
She was shot dead by two UVF men while visiting a Protestant friend, a pensioner recently released from hospital, in his Shore Road home in north Belfast on January 17th, 1993.
She was in his home cooking him dinner when she was killed. She was shot twice at close range from a 12-bore shotgun.
Gary Convie, Eamon Fox
Two Catholic workmen from Co Armagh who were shot dead by the UVF at a building site in the loyalist Tiger Bay area of Belfast on May 17th, 1994.
Eamon Fox
Gary Convie
The UVF claimed the men were republicans but their family and police said they were murdered because they were Catholic.
Mr Fox (44)was married with six children.
Mr Convie (24) had a partner and child.
Thomas Sheppard
A Protestant shot dead by the UVF in a bar in the Ballee estate in Ballymena, Co Antrim, on March 21st, 1996.
Thomas Sheppard
The UVF claimed that the 41-year-old married man from Coleraine, Co Derry, was a police informer.
He had a criminal record and was known for his UVF links. His murder followed a number of UVF arrests in the area and compromised UVF operations.
Rev David Templeton
Died of a heart attack on March 24th, 1997, six weeks after he was beaten at his home in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, by UVF members with nail-studded clubs.
David Templeton
Rev Templeton (43) had resigned as minister of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Greyabbey after it was reported he was stopped by customs officers when returning from Amsterdam in possession of a gay pornographic magazine.
Billy Harbinson
Found handcuffed and dumped in an alley in the Mount Vernon area of north Belfast on May 18th, 1997.
The 39-year-old Protestant from Hopewell Avenue was badly beaten and sustained severe head injuries. Initially police said there did not appear to be a sectarian or paramilitary link to his murder, but it later transpired that he was killed because he was suspected of informing.
Raymond McCord jnr
The 22-year-old Protestant former RAF airman was beaten to death at Ballyduff Quarry, Newtownabbey, by the UVF.
Raymond McCord Jr
His killing triggered the Police Ombudsman's investigation of the police handling of his murder inquiry, which now has a wider remit of whether members of RUC Special Branch colluded with X, the man who allegedly ordered the killing.
David Greer
Shot dead in north Belfast by the UVF on October 28th, 2000, during the UDA/UVF loyalist feud of that period. A 21-year-old UDA member from Robena Court, he was gunned down at Mountcollyer Street. At his funeral Protestant minister Rev Tom Greer pleaded for an end to the "wanton bloodletting". But four more died within a week.
Tommy English
Shot dead by the UVF on October 31st, 2000. The 39-year-old was a former senior UDA figure who was later a member of its political wing, the Ulster Democratic Party.
Tommy English
He was killed in retaliation for the earlier UDA murder that week of Bertie Rice, a member of the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist Party.
Information compiled from Irish Times Troubles files, Lost Lives and other newspaper sources.