Man quizzed over Derry murder

A man was arrested today for questioning about the murder of Darren Thompson in Derry in September.

The 26-year-old was detained in Coleraine, said a police spokesman.

Mr Thompson, 22, from Harkness Gardens in the city, died in hospital two days after being shot in the head in the Waterside area of Derry.

He was found lying at the roadside in Woodburn Park and is believed to have been attacked while walking to work. Police believe the gunman made off on foot through an alley into the loyalist Lincoln Courts estate.

Two men and a woman were detained shortly after the shooting and were later released without charge.

A group was set up in the Waterside after the murder to try to ease tensions within loyalism.

But Mr Thompson’s father, Gilbert, said his son had nothing to do with loyalist in-fighting.