Man arrested by historical team

The HET was set up to re-examine murders of the Troubles

Detectives from the Historical Enquiries Team have arrested a 55-year-old man in connection with the murder of Noel McKay in 1978.

Mr McKay, 29, was shot dead outside his home at Ardmore Drive off Finaghy Road North in Belfast in July 1978.

Republicans were blamed for the Catholic post office engineer's murder, however, the IRA said it was not involved in the killing.

The suspect was arrested in Glenariff in County Antrim on Tuesday.

According to Lost Lives, the book which chronicles every killing in the Northern Ireland conflict, Mr McKay was attacked by two gunmen, one armed with a shotgun, the other a pistol.

They fired around ten shots at close range.

An RUC spokesman at the time said: "There does not appear to be be any obvious motive.

"Mr McKay was not connected with the security forces and did not belong to any organisation."