UVF chief Stephen Matthews
But what was not revealed in court are the annual six-figure sums of public cash given to ACT, which was set up to help the UVF transition into a community organisation.
Last year the registered charity, which counts several former UVF life sentence prisoners on its board of trustees, was given almost £300,000 of government cash.
UVF leaders John Bunter Graham and Harry Stockman have met with senior civil servants under the auspices of ACT to ask for £5m of funding to help the paramilitary group abandon criminality.
Government sources told Sunday Life that the charity s public defence of the Pitt Park intimidation could damage future cash requests.