Slain man’s family accepts killers will not be caught

THE family of a murdered Dundalk forestry worker murdered by a loyalist sectarian gang say they have given up hope of his killers being brought to justice.

Slain man’s family accepts killers will not be caught

Seamus Ludlow, 47, was abducted by loyalist paramilitaries in Co Louth and shot dead on May 2, 1976, but gardaí never interviewed the suspects identified by the RUC 18 months later.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice heard the family now accepted a loyalist gang had carried the random murder but would never be held responsible.

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