A man has been charged with fraud by detectives investigating the 2001 murder of Lurgan journalist Martin O’Hagan.
Earlier on Friday detectives from PSNI’s Legacy Investigation Branch, confirmed the arrest a 42-year-old man as part of the overall investigation.
He was arrested in the Sheffield area on Thursday morning, with the assistance of Counter Terrorism Policing North East and South Yorkshire Police, and has been transported to Northern Ireland for questioning in the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station.
This evening, the man was charged to court on one count of fraud by false representation.
He is due to appear before Craigavon Magistrates’ Court on Friday, May 2.
As is usual procedure, the charge will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
On September 28, 2001, the Sunday World reporter was shot dead by a loyalist paramilitary group as he walked home with his wife from a pub in the north Armagh town.
The 51-year-old was the first working journalist to be killed in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969.
No-one has ever been convicted for his murder. Charges brought against individuals in 2010 and 2011 were withdrawn.
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