Body of ex-soldier ‘should be exhumed’

THE family of a nationalist councillor gunned down 30 years ago in the North want the body of a former soldier at the centre of the murder inquiry exhumed.

David Jordan, 54, died in November 2001 after allegedly breaking down and confessing the names of Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers whom he claimed shot dead a nationalist councillor nearly 30 years ago.

At the time of his death, it was claimed Mr Jordan, a heavy drinker, suffered a heart attack.