Shooting victims suspected of murder

THREE victims of republican paramilitary punishment shootings are the main suspects for a savage sectarian murder in Belfast a year ago.

As video footage taken minutes before Protestant David McDowell was battered to death was released, the detective heading the hunt urged witnesses to testify.

Just days after the 34-year-old shift worker was killed, near one of the city’s peace lines, a number of republican punishment attacks were carried out.