Senior loyalist arrested in connection with Finucane killing

Police in the North have arrested a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association in connection with the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.

The 39-year-old, who is believed to be on the UDA’s ‘inner council’, was arrested at his home on the Shankill Road in west Belfast this morning.

He is being questioned at Lisburn police station by detectives under the direction of London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens.

Mr Finucane’s family have consistently claimed that the British security services were involved in the 13-year-old murder and have called for a public inquiry into the killing.