02/03/2004

Two men arrested over loyalist feud shooting

Two men have been arrested and are being questioned by police in connection with the death of a Belfast man in 2002.

Twenty-two-year-old Alexander McKinley was shot in the head as he sat in a car on the Woodstock Road on October 7 2002. He later died in hospital.

Police linked the shooting to the bloody loyalist feud between the Portadown-based LVF and the UDA at the time.

Mr McKinley was believed to have been a relative of a senior UDA figure in east Belfast.

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