15/12/2015

Woman Arrested Over Peggy O'Hara Funeral

A 51-year-old woman has been arrested in relation to offences at the wake and funeral of Peggy O'Hara in July.

The woman was arrested in L'Derry and has been detained at Musgrave Police Station.

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/LM)


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