Eight people investigated about the murder of a journalist in the North over a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about the evidence of a key witness, the DPP for Northern Ireland said yesterday.

The funeral of a Northern Ireland journalist gunned down in front of his wife by loyalist paramilitaries will take place today.

The distraught wife of Northern Ireland journalist Martin O’Hagan, shot dead as he walked home from his local pub, tonight recalled the last minutes of his life.