The PSNI chief constable was forced to apologise after the prosecution of Hyde Park bombing suspect John Downey collapsed due to a “monumental” blunder by his force.

The prosecution of Hyde Park bombing suspect John Downey has collapsed after a “reckless” error led to him being given a false assurance that he was not wanted by British police over the IRA attack, it can now be reported.

Three of the world’s top cricketers were jailed today for their parts in a match-fixing scam that rocked international sport.

NEW medical evidence in the case of a babysitter convicted of murdering her neighbour’s two-year-old son by repeatedly banging his head against a wooden banister demonstrated she was the victim of a “serious miscarriage of justice”, the Court of Appeal in London heard yesterday.