17/09/2015

Peggy O'Hara Funeral: Two Released

Two people arrested in connection with the funeral of Peggy O'Hara have been released unconditionally.

A 53-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman were arrested in L'Derry after a number of masked men and women attended the funeral.

Peggy O'Hara was the mother of an INLA member who died in a hunger strike in Long Kesh in 1981.

Police are appealing to anyone with information to contact them.

(CD/JP)


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