Ten suspects in McCartney killing staying silent, say North police

TEN suspects questioned about the bar brawl murder of Robert McCartney have exercised their right to silence and refused to speak, police said yesterday.

Their refusal to disclose details about the knifing was confirmed as the victim’s sisters prepared to take their campaign for justice to Washington.

With the republican movement facing an unprecedented crisis following the Belfast killing blamed on an IRA gang, Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman is on standby to record crucial eye-witness accounts from anyone in Magennis’s bar when the deadly row broke out. Nuala O’Loan insisted statements given to her investigators could be used in the trial of anyone charged with the father-of-two’s murder.