PSNI hold suspect in SAS officer's murder

Police investigating the murder of SAS officer Captain Robert Nairac in the North more than 30 years ago arrested a man in South Armagh today.

The suspect, aged 57, was detained by officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland serious crime branch and taken for questioning in Antrim, the force said.

Captain Nairac was abducted by the IRA, taken across the border to the South and shot. His body has never been recovered.

Six people were convicted for their part in the killing of the army officer, who was abducted on May 14, 1977, when he visited a pub at Drumintee, South Armagh.

He was seized during a struggle in the pub’s car park and taken across the border to a field at Ravensdale, Co Louth, where he was interrogated for over an hour and then shot dead.

Police believe three other members of the IRA gang were involved. It is understood two of them are now living in the United States.