Published Friday, 20 January 2012
"Police are determined to use every legitimate avenue to pursue terrorist criminals - this investigation is not over," PSNI Chief Superintendent Peter Farrar said.
"We will continue to pursue all those involved in these evil murders."
Mark and Patrick were murdered as a result of a vicious, cowardly act ... after nearly three years of heartache we have come a little bit closer to justice.
Jaime Quinsey, sister of Sapper Mark Quinsey
Brian Shivers has been found guilty of the gun attack at Massereene in March 2009, in which young Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar were shot dead and five others were seriously injured.
Prominent republican Colin Duffy walked free from court on Friday, cleared of all charges.
"We are, of course, disappointed that one of the defendants has been acquitted," Geraldine Ferguson, the mother of 21-year-old Patrick Azimkar, said.
"This was a terrible crime which stole Patrick and Mark's young lives from them and blighted the lives of many other people."
Begging anyone with information about the fatal shooting to help the police get justice for the victims, the sister of 23-year-old Mark Quinsey said nothing could change the fact that her world "has been torn apart" and that the victims' families were the ones "serving life sentences".
But Jaime Quinsey added: "It brings great comfort to know that this case is not closed. We know there are more people involved and we want to see them sentenced."
Most of the gang involved are still at large, and police say they will not close the book on this investigation until they are brought to justice ...
UTV’s Sharon O’Neill, in her blog Massereene
Convicted Old Bailey bomber Marian Price, 57, is awaiting trial on charges connected with the Massereene murder plot, after a judge's ruling earlier this week that she had a case to answer.
A former IRA hunger striker and now a member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, she has been charged with providing property for the purposes of terrorism.
Price was first questioned by detectives investigating the case in November 2009, but formal charges were only brought against her in July last year.
She had been released early from jail under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, but that licence was revoked when she was charged with encouraging support for a proscribed organisation.
The charge relates to an allegation she held a speech for a masked dissident republican at an Easter Sunday rally in Londonderry last year, and saw Price held in solitary confinement in Maghaberry.
As police and the families of the Massereene victims reacted to Friday's verdicts, acquitted Colin Duffy returned home to Lurgan - where his supporters were celebrating his release.
Unlike Shivers, who spent the duration of the trial out on bail on health grounds, Duffy had been held on remand in Maghaberry and took part in no-wash protests over conditions there.