IAIS: Duffy re-arrested
	  id CAA07392; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:28:07 -0400


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10 October 1997


DUFFY RE-ARRESTED
 10/09/97 13:48 EST

 A man who walked free from prison last week after murder charges
 against him were dropped, has been re-arrested in Lurgan town center
 again this afternoon relating to an alleged assault. After his
 release last week, Colin Duffy (30) said the case was "an indictment"
 of the Northern Ireland legal system.

 Duffy, a republican from Lurgan in County Armagh, had been accused of
 the IRA murders of two RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) men in the
 town in June. The charges were dropped last week - the second time he
 has been wrongly accused of murder. Last September he was cleared at
 a second appeal of murdering retired UDR (Ulster Defense Regiment)
 soldier John Lyness, for which he had served three-and-a-half years
 in prison.

 Duffy said on his release: "It's an indictment of the system as a
 whole, from the RUC right through the courts. Until this system is
 changed, there isn't going to be any justice in this country." He
 said he had been arrested because: "I'm a republican - that's all
 that's needed."

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