Three released in Quinn murder probe

02/08/2008 - 08:48:28
Police in the North have released three men arrested on Thursday as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of Paul Quinn in Co Monaghan last October.

The men, in their 30s and 40s, were detained in south Armagh and were among 10 people held on both sides of the border during the week in connection with the murder of the 21-year-old.

One of those men remains in garda custody in Co Monaghan this morning after being arrested early yesterday morning.

Mr Quinn, from Cullyhanna in south Armagh, was beaten to death by a gang of men after being lured to an isolated farm in Co Monaghan last October.

His family claims members of the Provisional IRA were responsible for the killing, but Sinn Fein has denied that there was any republican involvement, blaming the incident on a dispute among criminals.

The body set up to monitor paramilitary ceasefires in the North has backed the family’s claims, saying that while the killing was not carried out by the IRA as an organisation, members or former members of the IRA in south Armagh were responsible.