Forensic experts today carried out a detailed examination of a derelict flat once occupied by a man cleared of murdering a missing schoolgirl in Northern Ireland.

An inquest into the death of a schoolgirl who was last seen with a convicted child killer may not start for two years, a court has heard.

A convicted murderer in jail in England is to be called to give evidence at the inquest into the death of a Co Tyrone teenager he was acquitted of murdering, a coroner ruled today.

Forensic scientists today joined a new police search for the body of a missing schoolgirl in the North.

Robert Lesarian Howard, from Wolfhill, Co Laois, was sentenced to life in prison in Britain in 2003 for murder of a 15-year-old English schoolgirl, Hannah Williams.

A man was today cleared of the murder of teenager Arlene Arkinson more than 10 years ago.