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Page last updated at 11:49 GMT, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:49 UK
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Man held over guesthouse killing

William Spence - pic PSNI
Billy Spence ran the Tara Guesthouse

Police investigating the murder of a 68-year-old guesthouse owner in Bangor have arrested a man.

Billy Spence was beaten and stabbed in the Tara Guesthouse on the County Down town's Princetown Road.

Police now know he was killed sometime after 2200 BST on Monday.

His partner discovered his body at 0730 BST on Tuesday. It is understood the Tara Guesthouse had been burgled in the last few weeks.



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