Three held over Lockhart murder freed

Updated: 11:13, Thursday, 20 April 2006

Three men who were questioned by police in Northern Ireland about a loyalist paramilitary murder have been freed without charge.

Three men who were questioned by police in Northern Ireland about a loyalist paramilitary murder have been freed without charge. 

The men were arrested yesterday by detectives investigating the killing of 25-year-old Jason Lockhart in east Belfast last July. 

Mr Lockhart was gunned down while at the wheel of a lorry on the lower Newtownards Road. 

His killing was blamed on the UVF.

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