Bobby Storey: Unionists using ‘detention’

A senior republican whose arrest over an IRA-linked murder escalated the current political crisis in Northern Ireland has accused unionists of using his “wrongful detention” to try to pull down power sharing.

Sinn Féin northern chairman Bobby Storey and two other well-known republicans were taken into custody on Wednesday. They were released without charge on Thursday night.

But during the period they were being questioned by detectives, Stormont’s first minister Peter Robinson stepped down and three of his Democratic Unionist ministers quit the Stormont coalition Executive.