No prosecution of eight over journalist’s murder

Eight people investigated about the murder of a journalist in the North over a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about the evidence of a key witness, the DPP for Northern Ireland said yesterday.

Sunday World reporter Martin O’Hagan, 51, was shot dead by loyalists in Lurgan, Co Armagh, in 2001.

Witness Neil Hyde gave an account to police which could not be independently verified, the DPP said.