PSNI find 'DNA link' to barracks murder getaway car

A 44-year-old man accused of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army barracks in the North left his DNA on matchsticks found in a partially burnt out getaway car, a court heard today.

The police case against Brian Patrick Shivers, from Maghera, County Derry, is based on forensic evidence recovered from inside and around the Vauxhall Cavalier used by the gunmen who shot dead sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, at the front gates of Massereene base in Antrim in March, a detective told Ballymena Magistrates Court.