 In 1992 Fulton was found guilty of possession of items for terrorist purposes and served nearly three years in prison, one of ten separate convictions he had picked by 2000.The Fultons were founder members of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) which Wright had formed in 1996 after he and his Portadown unit were stood down by the UVF Brigade Staff in Belfast on 2 August 1996.This came about after the unauthorised killing of Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick by gunmen from the Portadown unit of the Mid-Ulster Brigade during the Drumcree standoff when the UVF were on ceasefire.