Northern Ireland

Lithuanian man murdered in Co Tyrone is named by police

Police are treating as murder the discovery of a man's body in a garage on the Moor Road area of Coalisland. Picture by Colm Lenaghan, Pacemaker Press 
Police are treating as murder the discovery of a man's body in a garage on the Moor Road area of Coalisland. Picture by Colm Lenaghan, Pacemaker Press  Police are treating as murder the discovery of a man's body in a garage on the Moor Road area of Coalisland. Picture by Colm Lenaghan, Pacemaker Press 

THE 32-year-old man found dead in a garage in Co Tyrone has been named by police as Lithuanian national Gediminas Stauskas.

Police said Mr Stauskas had connections to the Dungannon area and detectives are investigating a possible link between his murder and an incident in Coalisland on October 14 when anorther foreign national man was shot in the leg.

Mr Stauskas's body was found in a garage on Moor Road in Coalisland on October 15, prompting fears of a feud between eastern European crime gangs.

Two Lithuanian men were shot in paramilitary-style attacks in Newry in September and it is not known whether the incidents are connected.

Three men were arrested in the Clonabay area of Coalisland following the shootings and Lithuanian man Ramunas Macnoris, who was arrested in Dungannon, following the Newry incident, was charged with two counts of attempted murder.