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28/11/2007
Arrests In City Double Murder Case
Arrests have followed a brutal double murder that shocked Belfast earlier this year.
Two men are being questioned in connection with the murders of the two people in March.
The pair was arrested on Wednesday in the Belfast area and are currently being questioned at a police station in Antrim.
The victimes were Edward Burns (36), from Ardoyne in Belfast, County Antrim, who was found shot dead at Bog Meadows in West Belfast and Joseph Jones (38) from Poleglass on the outskirts of Belfast, who was found later the same day with severe head injuries in an alleyway off Elmfield Street in North Belfast.
Detectives believe that the two murders are linked and were carried out against a background of tensions within dissident republicanism.
At the time, police officers said they received a predominantly positive response from local communities during their investigations.
This resulted in the recovery of four firearms and a man appearing in court, charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.
See: Belfast Killings: Suspects Held In Republic And North
(BMcC)
Two men are being questioned in connection with the murders of the two people in March.
The pair was arrested on Wednesday in the Belfast area and are currently being questioned at a police station in Antrim.
The victimes were Edward Burns (36), from Ardoyne in Belfast, County Antrim, who was found shot dead at Bog Meadows in West Belfast and Joseph Jones (38) from Poleglass on the outskirts of Belfast, who was found later the same day with severe head injuries in an alleyway off Elmfield Street in North Belfast.
Detectives believe that the two murders are linked and were carried out against a background of tensions within dissident republicanism.
At the time, police officers said they received a predominantly positive response from local communities during their investigations.
This resulted in the recovery of four firearms and a man appearing in court, charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.
See: Belfast Killings: Suspects Held In Republic And North
(BMcC)
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