Robbery charge against McCrory formally dismissed

The case against a Londonderry man murdered in the city last month was formally dismissed yesterday (Wednesday) at Belfast Crown Court where he was due to have been sentenced for an attempted robbery just before Christmas 2011.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Nov 2013, 10:38 BST
BARRY MCCRORY WHO WAS SHOT DEAD - COLLECT MCLAUGHLIN - The scene of the murder of Barry McCrory on Shipquay Street in Derry on Thursday. The man was gunned down in an appartment above the Foyle Financial building in the city centre just after 11am on Thursday morning. A woman in the appartment who was uninjured was taken to hospital. Picture Margaret McLaughlin © 10-10-13BARRY MCCRORY WHO WAS SHOT DEAD - COLLECT MCLAUGHLIN - The scene of the murder of Barry McCrory on Shipquay Street in Derry on Thursday. The man was gunned down in an appartment above the Foyle Financial building in the city centre just after 11am on Thursday morning. A woman in the appartment who was uninjured was taken to hospital. Picture Margaret McLaughlin © 10-10-13
BARRY MCCRORY WHO WAS SHOT DEAD - COLLECT MCLAUGHLIN - The scene of the murder of Barry McCrory on Shipquay Street in Derry on Thursday. The man was gunned down in an appartment above the Foyle Financial building in the city centre just after 11am on Thursday morning. A woman in the appartment who was uninjured was taken to hospital. Picture Margaret McLaughlin © 10-10-13

35-year-old Barry Joseph McCrory had claimed that his robbery bid on the Santander Bank was little more than a ‘protest against capitalism’.

Mr McCrory was shot dead in the Shipquay Street flat of his girlfriend on October 10 when a lone gunman carrying a rucksack entered the city centre flat between 10.30am and 10.45am and ordered the female occupant into another room before murdering the Galliagh man.

The shooting sparked a manhunt on both sides of the Londonderry-Donegal border for the alleged gunman, 58-year-old Kieran McLaughlin, who was later apprehended and arrested in the Galliagh area.

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