Officers investigating claims of security force collusion with loyalists in the North today arrested a man in connection with the 1987 murder of a Protestant student.
The man was arrested at about 6 a.m. at his home in north Belfast by a team from the Stevens Three Inquiry, assisted by officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The man (47) was arrested on suspicion of being involved in conspiracy to murder Adam Lambert at a building site in the loyalist Highfield Estate in the north of the city in November 1987.
A building services student, Mr Lambert was shot dead by the UDA/UFF after being mistaken for a Catholic.
Three men were convicted shortly after his death. One man who was found guilty of the murder admitted involvement in other conspiracies to kill Catholics.
The Stevens Three Inquiry was set up by the British government to investigate allegations of security collusion in the loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in February 1989.
A report into the inquiry, headed by Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is due out in the new year.
PA
