Man charged with RUC murder
A 54-year-old man has been charged with the IRA murder of an RUC Reserve Constable in Co Londonderry almost 30 years ago.
The man has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent, a police spokesman has said.
John Proctor, 25, had just visited his wife and their newborn baby son in the Mid-Ulster hospital in Magherafelt, when he was shot dead in the car park in September 1981.
He had been in the RUC Reserve for two years.
Just hours before he was ambushed, Constable Proctor had been a pallbearer at the funeral of a UDR soldier friend shot dead by an IRA gunman in a neighbouring village of Maghera two days earlier.
The 54-year-old man was detained in the Swatragh area on Monday morning by detectives from the PSNI’s Serious Crime Branch.
He will appear before Londonderry Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.
