A jury is expected to be sent out today to consider its verdict in the trial of a teenager accused of gunning down British schoolboy Rhys Jones.

MORE than 5,000 police officers who claim they suffered trauma during 30 years of trouble in the North yesterday began a High Court action that could result in a €150 million pay-out.

A convicted loyalist murderer, released early under the Good Friday Agreement, was tonight facing the prospect of serving out eight life sentences for his involvement in a 1993 atrocity, after being convicted of taking part in a knife attack at a football match.