Pub bouncer to be charged with McCartney murder

A PUB bouncer will be charged today with the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney while a senior IRA figure will face an attempted murder charge in relation to a separate attack on Mr McCartney’s friend, Brendan Devine.

Terry Davidson, 49, who worked as door security at Magennis’s bar, will face a murder charge.

He is an uncle of Brendan ‘Jock’ Davidson, a senior Sinn Féin member, who admitted to being in Magennis’s bar when Mr McCartney, 33, was dragged outside before being beaten and stabbed to death in an alleyway.

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