Soldier Mark Quinsey murder: Leading Republican among three arrested
LEADING republican Colin Duffy is one of three men arrested over the murder of a Midland soldier and his colleague in Northern Ireland.
The 41-year-old was arrested during a police raid in Lurgan on Saturday.
The former IRA prisoner had broken away from mainstream republicans and is part of a protest group that criticised Sinn Fein’s decision to back the new Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Two other men aged 21 and 32 were also arrested after police raids in Lurgan and Bellaghy, Co Londonderry.
Mark Quinsey, 23, from Highters Heath, Birmingham, was shot dead with fellow soldier Patrick Azimkar, 21, at Massereene barracks in Antrim a week ago.
The two soldiers, from 25 Field Squadron of 38 Engineer Regiment, were ambushed as they took a pizza delivery outside the base hours before flying off to Afghanistan.
Two other soldiers, including Marc Fitzpatrick, from Wales, were injured and two pizza delivery men were also wounded.
Last night Marc’s parents, Pauline and Roy, condemned the dissident republican gang as ‘criminals who have no support’.
They said Marc asked for floral tributes to be laid for his two dead colleagues before he underwent a nine-hour operation.
Pauline said: “The normal Irish person is not like this, they don’t want this. They want peace and we know that. We know the elements who did this are just criminals.”
