Man charged with Mount Vernon murder
A 37-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a taxi driver in north Belfast 12 years ago.
He was arrested on Tuesday by officers from the police’s Historical Enquiries Team over the killing of 39-year-old John Harbinson – who was handcuffed and kicked to death by a UVF gang in the Mount Vernon estate in 1997.
The accused will appear before Belfast magistrates Court on Wednesday morning.
Last month leading loyalist Mark Haddock was charged with Mr Harbinson’s murder.
The case is one of a number of killings linked to the notorious Mount Vernon UVF unit that are being re-examined in the wake of a Police Ombudsman’s probe into alleged security force collusion with the paramilitary gang.
