Three arrests over 1987 McCausland murder in Belfast
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23-year-old Lorraine McCausland was last seen alive in a loyalist club at Tyndale in north Belfast
Police investigating the rape and murder of Lorraine McCausland in north Belfast 30 years ago have made three arrests.
Two men, aged 49 and 56, were arrested in Scotland and a 53-year-old man was arrested in England. They will be taken to Northern Ireland for interview.
The body of Lorraine McCausland, a mother-of-two, was found beside a stream in Forthriver on 8 March 1987.
The 23-year-old was last seen alive in a loyalist club at Tyndale.
Police believe Ms McCausland, who had been on a night out, was raped in the club before she was "savagely beaten" and her body dumped.
The PSNI re-opened the investigation into the murder last November.
Lorraine McCausland's body was found beside a stream in Forthriver on 8 March 1987
Fourteen people were arrested during the original investigation but no-one was charged.
Detectives conducted 29 searches and took more than 100 witness statements.
Police have said the 'shadow of loyalist paramilitarism hangs over this case' due to where Lorraine McCausland was last seen
Lorraine McCausland's son, who was aged just two, when she was killed, was himself murdered 18 years later, in July 2005.
Lorraine McCausland's son, Craig, was killed by loyalists 18 years after his mother's murder
Craig McCausland died after being shot in Dhu Varren Park, external in north Belfast and the killing was blamed on tensions within loyalism by police.
- Published23 November 2016
- Published23 November 2016
