A murderer who skipped bail in the North before his guilty verdict was delivered may be hiding in the Republic, police said today.

A father-of-two beaten to death in front of his family may have been involved in an argument hours earlier at a family wedding, a priest said today.

Two men and a woman are being questioned about a fatal assault in the North.

Detectives in the North have been given another 36 hours to question three people about the murder of a man beaten to death as he returned home from a wedding.

A man was battered to death in front of his teenage daughter early today as he returned home from a wedding, the PSNI said.