Knight, had his early licence revoked last week by Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward, after he was found guilty of assaulting two sisters in a Coleraine bar last month.

He was a member of the UDA gang that massacred eight people in a gun attack at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel on Halloween night in 1993.
On Monday, Alistair Crawford of the Coleraine branch of the UPRG claimed that Mr Dallat had 'victimised' Knight.

Crawford said: "From the day and hour that Torrens Knight was released from jail under the Good Friday Agreement, John Dallat has had a vendetta against him.

"He has used the Good Friday Agreement, the PSNI and the Secretary of State to get Mr Knight back in jail, yet he had allowed the internment of Protestants in the Heights area of Coleraine.

"He hasn't been so quick to press the PSNI to gather evidence on the Nationalist thugs that have been plaguing the people of the Heights.
"It looks as if Mr Woodward has now prescribed to the green agenda and I would call on the Secretary of State to release Mr Knight."

Mr Crawford's statement comes as a banner which read Free Torrens Knight was removed from Sandelford Bridge by police on Monday morning.
Mr Dallat said: "I am more convinced than ever that the Secretary of State was entirely justified in suspending Knight's early release licence and I hope now that this will be ratified so that all of us, Catholic and Protestant, can live in peace."