Three held in North over murder of teenager (19)

Three people have been arrested this morning in connection with the murder of a Catholic teenager, Mr Ciaran Cummings (19) last…

Three people have been arrested this morning in connection with the murder of a Catholic teenager, Mr Ciaran Cummings (19) last July.

Two men and a woman were arrested following searches in the Shore Road area of Belfast, Antrim and Ballymena.

According to the police, a motorcycle and other items were recoved during the raids.

Mr Cummings was shot dead at the Greystone roundabout on the outskirts of Antrim town while he was waiting for a lift to work

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He was shot by the pillion passenger on a motorcycle who opened fire, hitting him at least twice.

Friends of the victim said he had been one of a number of men who had been threatened by loyalists in Antrim town

A caller claiming to represent the Red Hand Defenders told a Belfast newsroom at the time that it was responsible.

He said the killing was a response to the election of two Sinn Féin members to the local council in June.

Mr Cummings lived in the religiously mixed Greystone Estate.