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PSNI Granted Extra Time for Portadown Murder Suspect

Published 29 March 2026

Police in Northern Ireland have been granted additional time to question a suspect in the murder of 49-year-old Rolandas Kvederis, who died following an altercation at a property in Portadown, County Armagh, on Thursday evening.

Emergency services responded to reports of a man seriously injured at a home on Ranfurly Road shortly after 11 p.m. on March 26. Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service attended the scene, where Mr. Kvederis was pronounced dead. Detectives from the PSNI's Major Investigation Team immediately launched a murder inquiry, arresting two men, both in their 50s, on suspicion of murder.

In an update on Sunday, a PSNI spokesperson confirmed that one suspect remains in custody while the second has been released unconditionally. "Detectives investigating the murder of Rolandas Kvederis in Portadown on Thursday 26th March have been granted additional time by the court to question a man in his 50s arrested on suspicion of murder," the spokesperson said. "A second man, aged in his 50s and also arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released unconditionally."

The incident occurred in the Brownstown estate...

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