Forensic expert aid hunt for IRA killers
A forensic identification specialist has been called in to help detectives find the IRA killers who shot dead a Protestant businessman in Northern Ireland more than 10 years ago.
Shoes seized in searches of four houses in republican estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh, today are to be examined by the expert in foot morphology, the RUC said.
Roy Metcalfe, 40, was gunned down in front of his wife and teenage daughter after three masked gunmen broke into the family’s home at Magheralin, near Lurgan in October 1989.
The IRA claimed Mr Metcalfe, the owner of an army surplus store which also sold some loyalist regalia, was linked to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force - an allegation denied by the dead man’s family.
Boots recovered at the time have been forensically linked to the shooting, and the footwear found today will also undergo DNA tests as well as examination for structure and shape.
The RUC denied Sinn Fein claims that police fired plastic bullets during searches today in the Kilwilke estate.
But an RUC spokesman confirmed there were disturbances and two men were arrested.
