Music producer Phil Spector was facing a lengthy jail term today after being convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

The jury in Phil Spector’s second murder trial will visit the famed music producer’s home where actress Lana Clarkson died, but the judge set strict rules on the presence of Spector’s wife and the operation of an outdoor fountain.

A prosecutor in the murder retrial of Phil Spector portrayed the producer as a musical genius who repeatedly threatened women with guns and could become “very sinister, very violent and very deadly” when he was drunk.

ON A night of surprise announcements, late on Friday philanthropist Niall Mellon told his army of volunteer builders he is taking his name off the charity he founded.

Authorities in the US are investigating an internet posting that appeared to threaten the judge in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial.

A MAN who was refused permission to return to the US, after a brief visit home last Christmas, is to return there and be reunited with his pregnant wife.

Community leaders in Buncrana, Co Donegal, today appealed for action to cut the number of young people dying in road accidents as hundreds gathered for the funerals of those killed in last weekend’s tragic crash.