UK Arrests 2nd Man Over 1985 Murder Of Seychelles Politician

British police said Friday they have arrested a second man in connection with the assassination of an exiled Seychelles political leader in London three decades ago.

London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Aug, 2018 ) :British police said Friday they have arrested a second man in connection with the assassination of an exiled Seychelles political leader in London three decades ago.

The unnamed man in his 80s was arrested on Thursday as he flew into London's Gatwick Airport, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder Gerard Hoarau in 1985.

Police did not disclose where he arrived from.

The arrest follows that of a 77-year-old man in Northern Ireland on August 2, again on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

He has been released under investigation while further enquiries are carried out.

Hoarau, the leader of an opposition party on the Indian Ocean island nation, was shot and killed with a sub-machine gun on the doorstep of his home in the north London suburb of Edgware on November 29, 1985.