A man arrested by police investigating the Real IRA murders of two soldiers at the gates of a Northern Ireland army base earlier this year was released today pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.
The man (47) was detained in Belfast yesterday and questioned over 24 hours at the Police Service’s serious crime suite in Antrim before being freed.
He was questioned about the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar (21) from London, and Mark Quinsey (23) from Birmingham, who were gunned down at the gates of Massereene Barracks in Antrim in March.
He was also questioned about the attempted murder of five people in the same gun attack, two of them drivers delivering pizza to the soldiers who were having a last snack before being due to head off for a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Leading dissident republican Colin Duffy (41) from Lurgan, Co Armagh, has been charged with the murders. A second man, cystic fibrosis sufferer Brian Shivers (44) from Magherafelt, Co Derry, has also been charged with the killings.
He was granted bail because of his condition.
The soldiers were the first to be murdered in Northern Ireland in 12 years, and their deaths were followed two days later by the Continuity IRA murder of Pc Stephen Carroll in Craigavon.
PA