McCartney family seeks talks with Sinn Féin

THE family of murdered Belfast father of two Robert McCartney yesterday requested a meeting with Sinn Féin to discuss the party’s handling of the case.

The request was made after Sinn Féin announced over the weekend that five members suspended over the case were reinstated for following party leader Gerry Adams’s instructions that they should give statements about the murder to Northern Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan.

A spokesman said a sixth person had also given a statement to Ms O’Loan’s investigators but the leadership would make a decision on that individual’s fate “in due course”.