23/04/2003

Lawlor murder investigators issue photo-fit

Police investigating the murder of Catholic teenager Gerard Lawlor have issued a CD-fit of a man they are trying to identify in order to further their enquiries.

Police are appealing for information on a man seen in a car at the entrance to Bellevue Zoo on the night of Mr Lawlor's murder.

Police said that while they have had a good response in relation to past appeals, they had still not identified the man.

The 19-year-old father-of-one was shot dead at Floral Road in the Whitewell Road area just after midnight on Monday July 22nd last year. He was on his way home from the Bellevue Arms bar when he was murdered by loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).

(MB)

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