The loyalist paramilitary killer Michael Stone has been arrested in London, it was revealed today.
The man who shot dead three mourners at an IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, in 1988 was brought back to face questioning in Northern Ireland.
He was being held at Antrim.
It is understood Stone voluntarily walked into a police station in London yesterday and was flown to Belfast accompanied by detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Stone served part of a life sentence for the murders at Milltown when he fired shots and threw hand grenades into a crowd of mourners attending the funerals of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar.
He was released early in June 2000 under the terms of the 1998 Belfast Agreement, but later distanced himself from from ex-associates because of tensions inside the Ulster Defence Association.
He has been questioned a number of times in the past by police after surrendering himself in Northern Ireland, but has never faced any new charges.
PA