Ulster police launched a murder investigation after a prisoner was found dead in Maze Prison.
David Keys, 26, a suspect in a double-killing that shocked the British-ruled province March 3, was found hanging in his cell.
Keys was one of four men charged with killing Damien Trainor, a Roman Catholic, and Philip Altlen, a Protestant, in a guerrilla raid on a Catholic-owned pub in the country village of Poyntzpass.
“Following a post-mortem examination . . . a murder investigation has now commenced,” police said in a statement late Sunday.
Keys reportedly was found in his cell in a wing housing members of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, a banned pro-British Protestant militia.
Ulster’s pro-British Protestants and pro-Irish Catholics were united in grief over the killings of Allen and Trainor, whose long-time friendship had transcended the sectarian rift. Keys and the three other suspects denied the charges.
