Man arrested by officers investigating the 1992 murder of Constable Colleen McMurray and the attempted murder of her colleague in a mortar attack in Newry in 1992
Detectives from the PSNI’s Legacy Investigation Branch, investigating the murder of Constable Colleen McMurray and the attempted murder of her colleague in a mortar attack in Newry in 1992, have today made an arrest.
The statement adds that the 59-year-old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act at Birmingham Airport, with the assistance of Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands, and will be transported to Northern Ireland for questioning in the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station.
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Colleen McMurray, who was 34, was killed in an IRA mortar attack in Newry in County Down.
She had been a passenger in a police car which was hit by a mortar bomb as it travelled along Merchants Quay in Newry.
And another RUC officer lost his legs in the attack.
No one has ever been convicted of constable McMurray's murder.