A part-time soldier with the Royal Irish Regiment was charged today with the murder of a pub customer shot dead having a late night drink.

A part-time soldier was last night charged with the murder of a Catholic man shot dead in a Northern Ireland bar.

Detectives tonight questioned a part-time soldier about the shooting dead of a Catholic customer at a bar in Northern Ireland.

The man who surrended himself to the RUC after the murder of a 27-year-old Catholic man in Co Tyrone last night is a soldier.