Leading loyalist Gary Smith, who made a hoax bomb call about Holy Cross school the day police re-arrested him for breaching his prison release under the Good Friday agreement, was jailed today for three years.
Lord Justice McCollum told Smith (38), the only other prisoner apart from Johnny Adair to have his licence revoked, that the bomb call was meant to "ferment sectarian hatred and violence".
Lord Justice McCollum said the then "riotous picketing of the access of children to Holy Cross school was a shameful episode."
He added that those involved had "no conception of how debased their behaviour was and how far below the standards of basic civilization or with what abhorrence any normal person would regard it".
But Lord Justice McCollum said while he believed Smith was "motivated by a degree of malevolence" he did not believe he was a planner or leader and that he was more a "person of impulsive and reckless temperament, easily prevailed upon" to do the bidding of others.
Belfast Crown Court had heard that Smith claimed he was from the Red Hand Defenders, a cover name for the UDA, as he made the hoax bomb call on June 25th last year.
He was unaware he was being watched by police waiting to arrest him.
Two days earlier the Secretary of State had ordered his re-arrest to return him to prison.
When detectives learned of the hoax call they went to the phone box and it was later established that the call to UTV had been made from it and Smith's fingerprints were also found on the handset.
Following the hoax call army bomb experts found a suspect package placed inside the railings of the Ardoyne girl's school which appeared to be a pipe-bomb type device, but which subsequently turned out to be a hoax.