North police release Old Bailey bomber Price
18/11/2009 - 15:12:28Old Bailey bomber Marian Price was today released by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in the North.
Heavily armed police raided her home in the Andersonstown area of west Belfast yesterday and she was taken away for questioning about the Real IRA killings last March.
Price, 55, was arrested along with a 39-year-old man, who was detained 40 miles away in Coalisland, Co Tyrone, but he was released today unconditionally. Prosecutors will examine a police report on senior republican Price.
The pair were being held in Antrim for questioning, bringing to 14 the number of people arrested over the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, and Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham.
Two men have been charged over the murders – prominent Co Armagh republican Colin Duffy, 41, and Brian Shivers, 44, from Magherafelt, Co Derry.
Gunmen opened fire on the two soldiers as they collected food from a pizza delivery man outside the Massereene base in Co Antrim on March 7.
Within 48 hours of the killings, a separate dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, shot police officer Stephen Carroll dead in Craigavon, Co Armagh.
A 17-year-old youth has been charged in connection with the murder of the 48-year-old police officer.
Price and her sister Dolores were among those convicted over the 1973 bombing outside the Old Bailey in which one person was killed and around 200 others injured.
She is a leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, considered to be the Real IRA’s political wing.
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