PSNI arrest two in McCullough investigation

Police in Northern Ireland today arrested two men as their investigation continued into the murder of loyalist Alan McCullough.

Two men, aged 24 and 29, were being questioned by police about the death of the former associate of jailed loyalist Johnny Adair.

The body of Mr McCullough, who was 21 and was buried on Monday, was found in a shallow grave in Mallusk, on the outskirts of north Belfast.

Two men have already been charged with his murder.

The victim had recently returned to Belfast after fleeing the lower Shankill following the bitter feud between the loyalist Ulster Defence Association and a faction loyal to Johnny Adair earlier this year.

He was the youngest of six children and the father of a two-year-old girl.

His father, William “Bucky” McCullough, was murdered by the Irish National Liberation Army in 1981.