McCartney killers should do patriotic thing, says family

The killers of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney should do the patriotic and honourable thing by handing themselves in, his family told a rally today.

The sisters of Mr McCartney, who was beaten and stabbed last month during a brawl in a Belfast bar in an attack blamed on IRA members, received a warm ovation from hundreds of people who gathered in the nationalist Short Strand to back their campaign for justice.