Police in fresh bid to solve child murder

POLICE have not ruled out witchcraft or paedophilia as motives for Northern Ireland’s most gruesome child murder, it emerged yesterday.

Detectives have appealed for fresh information about the death of 10-year-old Brian McDermott, 30 years after his murder.

Brian disappeared from a playground in Ormeau Park, south Belfast, on Sunday September 2, 1973. His badly mutilated torso and arm were recovered from the River Lagan a week later.