Police and politicians call for calm after Troubles memorial arrest

A memorial to Jack Duffin, Willie McManus, Christy Doherty, Peter Magee, and James Kennedy who were killed during the Sean Graham Bookmakers shooting attack on 5 February 1992 (PA)

Police and politicians have called for calm following the controversial arrest of a Troubles survivor at a memorial event.

Mark Sykes, who was shot multiple times in the loyalist massacre at a betting shop in Belfast in 1992, was later released after Friday’s incident on the city’s Ormeau Road.