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07/06/2010
Moffett Murder Detectives Make Arrest
There has been a new arrest over the brutal murder of a Shankill Road loyalist.
The PSNI said today that a 30-year-old man has been detained by detectives investigating the murder of Bobby Moffett, gunned down over a week ago. The man was detained in the Belfast area on Monday morning.
Mr Moffett was shot in the face and chest with a shotgun by two masked men on Friday 28, May in an incident that the police later said was the work of the outlawed UVF.
"This was a very public murder. I believe the time and the location was at the choosing of the gunmen," Detective Chief Inspector John McVea said just before the former loyalist prisoner was buried.
"This leads me to describe the murder as a public execution.
"It is the police view that Bobby Moffett was lured to his death on the Shankill last Friday as part of a dispute involving individuals linked to the UVF," he added.
See: Shankill Remembers UVF Murder Victim
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The PSNI said today that a 30-year-old man has been detained by detectives investigating the murder of Bobby Moffett, gunned down over a week ago. The man was detained in the Belfast area on Monday morning.
Mr Moffett was shot in the face and chest with a shotgun by two masked men on Friday 28, May in an incident that the police later said was the work of the outlawed UVF.
"This was a very public murder. I believe the time and the location was at the choosing of the gunmen," Detective Chief Inspector John McVea said just before the former loyalist prisoner was buried.
"This leads me to describe the murder as a public execution.
"It is the police view that Bobby Moffett was lured to his death on the Shankill last Friday as part of a dispute involving individuals linked to the UVF," he added.
See: Shankill Remembers UVF Murder Victim
(BMcC/GK)
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