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Michael Stone released by police

25/06/2005 - 20:03:03
The loyalist paramilitary killer Michael Stone has been released from police custody, it was confirmed tonight.

A police spokeswoman said a file would be sent to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).

Stone, 50, was questioned in relation to terrorist offences in Antrim, after voluntarily walking into a police station in London on Tuesday.

He was flown to Belfast accompanied by detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland after his arrest.

The man who shot dead three mourners at an IRA funeral at Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, in 1988 was brought back to Northern Ireland for questioning.

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.

Around 60 people were also injured as Stone ran through Milltown Cemetery firing shots.

Stone was released early in June 2000 under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, but later distanced himself rom 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.

His autobiography was published in 2003.

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