Cashflow crisis holds up murder investigation in the North

A BUDGET crisis for the police ombudsman’s office in the North has halted an investigation into a loyalist police informer’s involvement in a series of murders.

Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s office confirmed that the Raymond McCord murder inquiry will not proceed to a full investigation due to lack of resources.

A north Belfast UVF member suspected of being a police informer is believed to have ordered the murder of the 22-year-old Protestant, who was beaten to death and dumped in a quarry in November 1997.