A 21-year-old man appeared in court today charged with withholding information about the murder of a policeman in Northern Ireland.
The accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is charged with failing to provide police with facts related to the shooting of PC Stephen Carroll (48), in Craigavon earlier this month.
He was remanded in custody by Lisburn Magistrates to appear at Craigavon Crown Court on April 17th. His defence lawyer made no application for bail.
Dressed in a blue jumper, the defendant sat silently and impassively through the 10-minute hearing. A court order prevented any further details of the remand proceedings being published or the reason for his identity being withheld.
A 17-year-old youth and former Sinn Féin councillor Brendan McConville (37), have already been charged with PC Carroll’s murder. Mr McConville, from Glenholme Avenue, Lurgan, was remanded in custody yesterday. The teenager was remanded on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a top republican being questioned about the killing of two British soldiers in Antrim, two days before PC Carroll’s murder, remains in custody after being rearrested yesterday, less than an hour after a High Court Judge ruled his detention unlawful.
Colin Duffy (41), from Lurgan, was one of six suspected dissident republicans whose lawyers challenged a court order granting detectives more time to question them.