OMICIDIO McCARTNEY, LE ACCUSE CONTRO PADRAIC WILSON
Robert McCartney murder: Leading republican faces charges (BBC News Northern Ireland)
A leading republican has been charged with two offences by police investigating offences in relation to the murder of Robert McCartney in 2005.
It is understood he is Padraic Wilson, who was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze Prison in the late 1990s.
He is to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with IRA membership and addressing a meeting to encourage support of the IRA.
Mr McCartney, 33, was stabbed to death outside Magennis’s bar in Belfast.