Old Bailey bomber arrested over soldiers’ murders
Leading dissident republican Marian Price has been arrested by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside Massereene barracks in Antrim.
Heavily armed police raided her home in the Andersonstown area of west Belfast and she was taken away for questioning about the Real IRA killings last March.
Marian Price, 55, was arrested along with a 39-year-old man, who was detained 40 miles away in Coalisland, Co Tyrone.
It is understood that police began the search of her semi-detached red brick house in Stockman’s Avenue, a quiet cul de sac close to the M1 motorway, when heavily armed police wearing flak jackets arrived in cars and Land Rovers at around 7.30am on Tuesday.
The arrested pair are being held in Antrim for questioning.
A total of 14 people have now been arrested in connection with the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, and Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham at the military base.
Only two men have been charged so far, prominent Co Armagh republican Colin Duffy, 41, and Brian Shivers, 44, from Magherafelt, Co Londonderry.
Price and her sister Dolores were among those convicted over the 1973 bombing outside the Old Bailey in which one person was killed and around 200 others injured.
The Price sisters were transferred to a Northern Ireland prison after going on hunger strike.
The episode secured their position as high-profile members of the republican movement at the time.
Marian Price has since been a vocal critic of the decision of the mainstream republican movement to decommission weapons and back the political process.
She is a leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, considered to be the Real IRA’s political wing.
