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POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland have released further CCTV footage of the moments before Lyra McKee was shot dead in Derry and have appealed for information.
The footage shows a number of individuals preparing petrol bombs and an individual dressed in black who police say is the gunman who killed McKee.
“About one minute before Lyra was murdered, three men walked across Central Drive from the direction of the shops. In the footage you can see these men,” PSNI detective superintendent Jason Murphy told a press conference this morning.
At the front you can see a man circled – he’s carrying a crate of petrol bombs towards where the crowd including children, were standing. He is the tallest of the three men – I want to know who he is.
“Behind him you can see two other men. The man on the inside nearest the wall is the next tallest. He’s wearing dark skinny jeans, blue Nike trainers with a white tick and a white sole. He’s wearing a camouflage scarf or other covering across his face. Do you know this man?”
“In other footage he can be seen holding a petrol bomb and in the new light his clothing is clearly visible.
As he walked along the footpath, he was accompanied by the third man. In the footage you can see that he is shorter than both of the other men and of stocky build. It’s my belief he is the gunman that fired indiscriminately into the crowd, placed the community and police officers at risk and took the life of Lyra.
“You can see he is wearing dark clothing and in other footage you can see this clothing in a different light. People know who he is.”
Murphy said that PSNI investigators have had “widespread public support” and that over 140 people have provided images, footage and other details so far.
“I recognise people living in Creggan may feel it’s difficult to come forward to speak to police. I want to provide a personal reassurance that we are able to deal with these concerns sensitively,” the officer said.
Anyone with information on the murder can contact the PSNI or independent charity Crimestoppers.
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Yes, people must know who he is, they are culpable if they don’t come forward!
@Maire: You don’t understand the mentality up there ,”loose whispers can kill” is the ingrained into their sub consciousness among most people in the north.
@Bass demon: if “loose whispers can” what do you think will happen to all the people who stood there with there camera phones videoing the shooting taking place and the 2nd guy picking up the used bullet shells?
@Bass demon: “loose whispers can kill” sounds like a bad George Michael song and something I never had ingrained into my subconscious as a Nordie. “Don’t talk sh(ite) about stuff you know nothing about” was though and something maybe you should heed.
@Bass demon: All a game ,all terrorism
@Chief Buck Cat: Depends where you reside the working class socially deprived areas never cooperate with the law and are encouraged not to ,we’ve seen what’s happened to so called touts over the last few decades. Some unfortunate guy was beaten and butchered to death inside a packed pub in Belfast in 2005 yet nobody saw anything and CCTV was wiped so let’s get real if you think the local people will pin point the killer.
@Roy Dowling: in fairness they did not know that they would be videoing a shooting, the poor lady who so sadly died was also using her camera phone at the time
@Bass demon: That’s a fair point and is true for the country as a whole (especially Dublin). But there is a definite shift gaining momentum in both in Loyalist and Republican areas in the North. People are not going to take this (s)hit from nest lining criminals posing as visionaries any longer. They are the analogue dregs of the troubles. “Touts” can now be anonymous, encrypted, equipped, anyone and everywhere in the digital era. Who’s going to stop them? Some (d)ick in Oxfam aviators and 4-day old combats? These murderers won’t see their Benidorm holiday this year.
@Maire: very easy to say from your armchair in the south. Not so easy when these people run the street you live on.
Inadequacy, impotence, and undeveloped minds filled up with lies from middle-aged, micrococked bar stool benefit gurus. Derry needs to root them out once and for all and be the beautiful, friendly city that it has always been. Hound them from every county they try to slither into. Let’s start with these two traitors against all that being Irish stands for.
If this ‘New IRA’ wasters meant anything they said they would give this bolloxs up to the PSNI
@Joseph Bent: They’ll take his knees instead – he’ll be easy enough to spot in a few weeks.
@Dr Richard DeWitt: No they won’t, they’ll protect him.
Where was he radicalised?
Thay are Low Life S@@m
His tracksuit bottoms look very distinctive with the large logo surely someone has seen this idiot wearing them around prior to the shooting.
@Darren: you think they are going to tell the police? Did you not see all the kids and adults in the middle of the riot treating it like a street party.
@SFNutters: What I saw was a dude firing a gun into kids and adults and fatally wounding Lyra. That’s the only fact that matters. Do you really think the people of the Creggan condone this? Of course, you don’t. Small minds like yours are part of the problem. Projecting your own reflex prejudice and lack of cognitive awareness on something like this just shines a light through the sour and empty husk of a person you are.
@Chief Buck Cat: they know who he is and won’t do anything….all it takes for evil to thrive is for good people to do nothing.
@SFNutters: Great! you can obviously read minds and tell the future so the Police should just give you a bell for all the answers in this case. Attack the killers, not a whole community just because of your blatant prejudices. This is also from the same quote you paraphrased: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle” The good people of the Creggan far outweigh the bad even if that doesn’t fit your nefarious agenda.
@SFNutters: the vast majority of those rioting would be repulsed by the shooting of that innocent girl. I’d be shocked if the police didn’t already have the shooters identity via the crimstoppers confidential line. They will need to gather more evidence before any arrests are made but there are plenty of good people in Derry who’d be happy to give up that piece of sc#m.
The fake army uniforms must have been in the wash and had to be replaced by tracksuit bottoms and runners. Very army like!! Sc@@ba&!
It’s the “people know who he is” statement that is the most sickening. What a septic society it is up there.
Poor innocent people getting murdered with all this starting back up again
Is this the same area of the Bloody Sunday shootings?
Well I am none the wiser from that picture who they are
@Kevin Spencer: were u expecting to see their passport photos? Those are the best images available
Someone knows who this thug is, turn him in.
I would imagine they already know who the murderers are because they would have a sleeper in the crowd as they had with the other ira whatever
All a game ,all terrorism
All a game ,all terrorism
The fake army uniforms must have been in the wash and had to be replaced by tracksuit bottoms and runners. Very army like!! Idiots
@Ken Faherty: They only wear army uniforms on parades .
@Ken Faherty: the Army surplus shop must have been sold out of their “not good enough for actual soldiers” line.
Poor innocent people getting murdered over this all kicking off again!!
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