Doherty family deny RIRA allegations
The family of a man shot dead by the Real IRA has insisted he was not an informer or drug dealer.
Kieran Doherty, aged 31, was stripped, tied up and left in a remote laneway on the outskirts of Derry close to the border on Wednesday night.
His family has alleged he had been under ‘continuous harassment’ from the secret service MI5 in the months before his death.
‘We repeat that he was neither an informer nor a criminal. He was never in his life associated with drugs,’ the relatives’ statement said.
Last night, the Real IRA, the group which also carried out the Omagh bombing in 1998, said in a statement to local media in Derry, that it had killed Kieran Doherty.
The group claimed the murdered man had been a senior member of its organisation.
The PSNI has confirmed that Mr Doherty was known to the police, but stressed this could never excuse his murder.
The murder has been widely condemned.
