Murder accused refused holiday application

By The Newsroom
Published 6th Jun 2014, 13:12 BST
PACEMAKER BELFAST 18/12/2013 Gary Marshall, 45, of Ennis Green, Lurgan, hides from the camera after he appeared at Craigavon court on Wednesday charged with the 1998 murder of Kevin Conway. Mr Marshall was released on Bail until January. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker PressPACEMAKER BELFAST 18/12/2013 Gary Marshall, 45, of Ennis Green, Lurgan, hides from the camera after he appeared at Craigavon court on Wednesday charged with the 1998 murder of Kevin Conway. Mr Marshall was released on Bail until January. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 18/12/2013 Gary Marshall, 45, of Ennis Green, Lurgan, hides from the camera after he appeared at Craigavon court on Wednesday charged with the 1998 murder of Kevin Conway. Mr Marshall was released on Bail until January. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
A Lurgan man, accused of a murder dating back 16 years, has been refused an application to go on holidays.

Gary Marshall, from Ennis Green in Lurgan, is accused of murdering 30-year-old Kevin Conway on a date unknown between 16 and 19 February 1998.

Having been kidnapped from his Lurgan home, the body of the married father-of-four was found on farmland at the Soldierstown Road near Aghalee on 17 February, his head hooded, hands tied behind his back and shot through the head.

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Detectives arrested Marshall in Birmingham last December after carrying out a review of the original RUC murder investigation and the court previously heard that Marshall could allegedly be connected to the execution by soil and forensic fibre evidence.

Refusing Marshall’s application for a holiday at Craigavon Magistrates’ Court, District Judge Mervyn Bates said it was his opinion that given the seriousness of the charge f