New shooting probe urged

The family of a man shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland while eight undercover soldiers were nearby have hit out at a decision not to hold an inquest into the murder.

Coroner John Leckey said the 1990 shooting of former republican prisoner Sam Marshall in Lurgan, County Armagh, should be the subject of a further probe by the Police Ombudsman’s office before any decision on an inquest. The scale of the security force presence at the incident emerged earlier this month.