Crime

A mother of four who attacked a nurse, poked a patient in the eye and bit into a police officer’s arm has avoided immediate imprisonment by “a hair’s breadth”.

Police are attending a security alert at a Co Armagh graveyard.

The woman who was rescued by three P.S.N.I. officers after her car became submerged in water on Saturday has passed away in hospital.

An elderly Co Armagh woman has been robbed by phone scammers claiming they could help her with a council tax rebate.

The P.S.N.I. is advising motorists to avoid a busy Northern Ireland road because of an overturned lorry.

The body of a man has been recovered from a river in Northern Ireland, an emergency rescue charity has confirmed.

Detectives investigating a petrol bomb attack at a house in Ballymena yesterday evening have appealed for witnesses to come forward.

The Moy Road, Dungannon remains closed following a report of a serious one vehicle road traffic collision this morning.

Detectives are appealing for information after a report of a paramilitary-style assault in the Green End area of Newtownabbey on Saturday night.

The son of a family man shot dead by the IRA early in the Northern Ireland Troubles has branded former senior republican Billy McKee a bitter and twisted old man.

A veteran republican who opposed the peace process died “unrepentant”, hundreds of mourners in West Belfast were told.

A 46-year-old man who threw a vodka bottle at his mother hitting her on the arm told a judge that she was a ‘great mum’ last Friday at Craigavon Magistrates Court.

Detectives from Organised Crime Branch have arrested three men and a woman following a number of planned searches at properties in west Belfast yesterday (Friday 14th June).

A victims’ campaigner has demanded Sinn Fein live up to its own rhetoric over the truth of the Troubles, after it emerged the man honoured by Michelle O’Neill last week had stood accused of an especially “cowardly” crime – the shooting of a man at his own wedding.