Two men previously jailed for taking part in a 2005 tiger raid have been found not guilty after a “dramatic” ruling that mobile phone records cannot be used as evidence in the case.

A man arrested as part of an investigation into a €2.28m "tiger kidnapping" told gardaí a “cock and bull story” about a black notebook found during a search of his home, a trial has heard.

Police in the North are investigating the theft of an undisclosed sum of money during a so-called tiger raid in Belfast this morning.