Former loyalist terrorist leader Johnny Adair has been given a restraining order after he admitted harassment.
Adair (41) and William Woods (37) admitted harassing two other former members of their UDA gang between April and August of this year.
Bolton Magistrates' Court heard how the men drove past the house where Stephen McQuaid and his partner, Kerry Thompson, lived with their three young children, shouting insults and threatening violence.
Adair, Woods, Mr McQuaid and Ms Thompson left the North for Bolton after a UDA internal feud, the court heard.
Stephen Sargent, prosecuting, said Mr McQuaid and Ms Thompson had wanted to move on with their lives while Adair and Woods wanted to keep the "Belfast ethos".
He said: "It seems to me that these people fell into two categories. There were those who, in a different environment, have seized the opportunity to start a new life and put the past behind them, and there are those who are trying to keep to the ethos that the others left behind in Belfast, and that has led to friction.
"It has led to the harassment of those who want to distance themselves from their former life."
Sentencing Adair and Woods to time already served and imposing the restraining orders, Magistrate Malcolm Bristow said he recognised that both parties were involved in the feud.
He said: "We recognise that there has been goading of both parties. You did take the law into your own hands and try and resolve the situation when you could have telephoned the police and informed them."
Both men were ordered to pay £150 costs