Crime

Police have described the murder of a local man in broad daylight in a quiet Co Down village as “absolutely brutal and barbaric”.

Detectives investigating the firing of shots over a former IRA man’s coffin in west Belfast say they have seized “a number of items” for examination.

The reappointment of the NI victims’ commissioner would be a “calculated kick in the teeth for innocent victims,” Jim Allister has said.

A petrol bomber who was recognised by the police when his mask fell off during four hours of sustained public order offences when rioters attacked police lines during disturbances in Fahan Street in the Bogside area of Londonderry in July of last year, has been jailed for five-and-a-half years at the city’s Crown Court.

A man accused of rioting in Londonderry on the night journalist Myra McKee was murdered must remain in custody, a High Court judge ruled on Tuesday.

The former leader and child protection officer of an award-winning accordion band wept in court today as he was jailed for 15 months for sexually abusing two young girls.

A stag do reveller from Belfast who sexually assaulted a woman in England has been jailed for 22 months.

Detectives investigating the murder of 54-year-old Malcolm McKeown in Waringstown on Monday night have arrested a 30 year old man on suspicion of murder.

Church leaders in Waringstown where Malcolm McKeown was shot dead on Monday have issued a joint statement calling for peace.

Fantasist Carl Beech, who was jailed for 18 years for false claims of a VIP paedophile ring, has applied for permission to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Police netted a large amount of drugs during a regular Vehicle Check Point in Co Armagh.

A lack of support across a large swathe of terror victims has made it impossible for the NI victims’ commissioner to continue in her post, Emma Little Pengelly has said.

A man allegedly sent indecent images to paedophile hunters posing as a 14-year-old girl, a court heard yesterday.

A petrol bomber who was recognised by police when his mask came off during rioting in the Bogside area of Londonderry is due to be sentenced at the city’s Crown Court today.

Newry Mourne and Down District Council is still withholding £65,000 from an LGBT Pride festival, citing an ongoing council investigation and “governance related concerns”.

A soldier who survived the Ballygawley bus bomb has appealed on the anniversary of the atrocity to find the woman who saved him as he lay dying at the roadside.

Police are appealing for information after reports of a number of burglaries outside Crumlin.