A loyalist who killed three men during a gun and grenade attack at an IRA funeral in West Belfast must serve out the remainder of of his minimum 30-year jail sentence, it was disclosed.

Milltown Cemetery killer Michael Stone has been questioned about plots to murder prominent political figures during the 1980s, it emerged today.

The families of three men shot dead by a loyalist murderer at the an IRA Belfast funeral are planning legal action against the Ministry of Defence and police in Northern Ireland, they announced tonight.

A teenager wept today as he was charged with attempted murder which left a youth fighting for his life after a knife attack in west Belfast.