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Maze murder inquiries completed

Saturday, March 21, 1998 Published at 23:28 GMT
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image: [ David Keys was accused of murdering Damien Trainor and Philip Allen (pictured) ]
Maze murder inquiries completed
Police have finished questioning a second round of Loyalist Volunteer Force inmates at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in connection with the murder of a prisoner last weekend.

The men were taken to the RUC central holding centre at Castlereagh in east Belfast for questioning about the killing of David Keys.

An RUC spokesman confirmed that they had all now been returned to the Maze prison without charge.

Sixteen LVF prisoners who were arrested last week were released without charge on Friday and returned to the Maze.

The Northern Ireland Office said the men would be locked in their cells until the RUC finished its investigations.


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All 30 of the LVF inmates in the wing where the murder took place have now been interviewed but no-one has been charged.

David Keys and three other men had been remanded in custody charged with the murder of two friends, one Catholic, one Protestant, in a pub in Poyntzpass, County Armagh.

Mr Keys was found hanging by a bed sheet from the window bars of his cell. He had been tortured, beaten, strangled and had his wrists slashed.

He and the other men had asked to be housed in the same wing as convicted LVF prisoners.

It is believed he was killed because the other inmates believed he had co-operated with the RUC in their investigation into the Poyntzpass murders.


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