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.

Body of ex-soldier ‘should be 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.

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