A teenager’s desperate struggle with serial killer Robert Black as he tried to bundled her into his van has been recounted at his latest murder trial.

The trial of a Belfast man accused of murdering a taxi driver in the city almost four years ago dramatically collapsed at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The three judges of the non-jury Special Criminal Court sat for the first time at the Belfast Crown Court today to hear evidence in a Continuity IRA-linked murder trial.