Marianne Smyth was sentenced at Downpatrick Crown Court after being found guilty of theft and fraud in September.

Marianne Smyth has been in a Maine jail waiting to learn if she will be extradited.

Gary Haggarty also told the trial of James Stewart Smyth at Belfast Crown Court that the UVF knew two murder victims were innocent Catholics.

Loyalist supergrass Gary Haggarty also claimed that the accused was ‘unhappy’ that he had not killed a third man.