The man whose dismembered body was found in a wheelie-bin in Belfast yesterday has been named by police tonight as 34-year-old William David McClatchey.
A spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said Mr McClatchey was from the Taughmon area. A post mortem took place on his remains today and police have received the results. They are not being made public at this time, the PSNI spokesman added.
A 42-year-old man was being questioned by Northern Ireland police today after the discovery of Mr McClatchey's body in the Mount area of Belfast yesterday.
The find was made by police in the courtyard of a block of flats in east Belfast. The body, that of a male, was found in the yard of Pottinger House in the Mount area of the city yesterday evening. The arrest was made shortly afterwards.
The man being questioned about the death and a ground floor flat in the apartment block, believed to be his, was put under detailed examination by police and forensic experts.
Police went to the Pottinger House apartment block in the Mount area - run by a housing association - on Monday evening after a tip-off.
The courtyard remained sealed off all day and one resident said he saw officers removing a blood stained blanket from a bin.
Belfast Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers, a councillor in East Belfast, said the death was horrendous.
"This is deeply worrying. There has been a rise in serious crime, not just in Belfast but right across Northern Ireland and I'm very concerned about it," he said.
East Belfast Democratic Unionist Assembly member Robin Newton said the discovery had created fear in the area.
"This is a close-knit community around the Mount area and there would be a lot of concern that someone who was prepared to carry out such violence would be living in the community," he said.
Mr Newton said the only way people would begin to feel safe again was when the person or persons responsible were behind bars.
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