'Nothing new' in review of murder connection to IRA bombing

A review of intelligence linking a man cleared of the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing to two other murders found no new evidence, a former senior detective in Northern Ireland said.

'Nothing new' in review of murder connection to IRA bombing

A review of intelligence linking a man cleared of the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing to two other murders found no new evidence, a former senior detective in Northern Ireland said.

Prosecutors had already decided there was insufficient material to charge John Downey with the killing of two Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers in Enniskillen in Co Fermanagh in 1972.

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