£20,000 reward offered for information about murder of Catholic teenager Marian Beattie

A £20,000 reward has been offered for information about the murder of a Catholic teenager more than 50 years ago.The 18-year-old’s partially clothed body was found at the bottom of Hadden’s Quarry in Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, in March 1973. The teenager, who was from Portadown, had earlier been seen leaving a dance in the company of a man and concerns were later raised when she failed to meet her brother for a lift home.Last year a Police Ombudsman report highlighted numerous failings in the police investigation into her death.Man in 70s arrested by police investigating Marian Beattie murder in TyroneOpens in new windowRUC had ‘little doubt’ suspect killed Catholic teenager Marian BeattieOpens in new windowEarlier this year PSNI chief constable Jon Boutcher ordered an independent peer review