Loyalists suspected of man’s ‘brutal’ doorstep murder

LOYALISTS were last night suspected of murdering a man after getting his young son to send him to the front door if his Co Down home.

They were also being blamed for a gun and petrol bomb attack on a house in north Belfast and the shooting of a teenager in west Belfast.

Mark Apsley (38), died in a hail of bullets when a lone gunman called at his house in Dickson Park in the village of Ballygowan on Saturday evening.