Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness has appealed for anyone with information about the recent killing of Robert McCartney to give that information to the victim's family.
Mr McCartney, 33, was fatally stabbed during a fight at Magennis's Bar in Belfast over two weeks ago.
Speaking in London this afternoon, Mr McGuinness condemned the killing and said the McCartney family deserved justice.
He said anyone with reservations about going to the PSNI should pass any information they had 'to the family or any respected organisation'.
Mr McGuinness said the killing had nothing to do with the IRA as an organisation.
He said Sinn Féin was doing everything in its power 'to encourage people in the community to provide the McCartney family with the information they so desperately seek at this time'.
Last night Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams launched a scathing attack on those who carried out the stabbing, and stressed that his party supported the victim's family in the search for justice.
