GARY Martin Quinn (34), the self-confessed UFF "top gun", was yesterday given life terms for each of four sectarian killings and another for plotting to murder others.
As he was led from Belfast Crown Court, a man who survived a shotgun attack by Quinn in December 1987 wished him "happy Christmas", to which he replied "Thanks, mate".
Quinn, of Drumard Crescent, Lisburn, confessed to the killings seven years to the day after he himself was shot in the head by an off-duty soldier while "almost certainly on active service with the UFF", Lord Justice Nicholson said.
In all, Quinn was convicted of 23 of the catalogue of 29 offences he originally faced.
