Detectives release two over Belfast murder

Updated: 16:02, Thursday, 7 July 2005

Two men arrested earlier this week by detectives investigating the murder of a man in Belfast last Friday have been released without charge.

Two men arrested earlier this week by detectives investigating the murder of a man in Belfast last Friday have been released without charge.

They had been questioned about the killing of 25-year-old Jameson Lockhart, who was shot dead as he sat in a lorry on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast.

He was a contractor removing rubble from a former bar which had recently been demolished.

Mr Lockhart associated with people in the Loyalist Volunteer Force, and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force was blamed at the time for the killing.

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