A vulnerable young woman strangled to death, wrapped in a duvet and dumped in a car park may also have been subjected to a sickening sex attack, it emerged tonight.

Police investigating the murder of a blues musician in Derry today sought the public’s help in trying to trace his bicycle.

A man was questioned today by police investigating the murder of a musician whose body was found in a Northern Ireland river.

An attack which left a young man fighting for his life in Derry is being treated as attempted murder, police confirmed tonight.

Police are to examine close circuit TV recordings in a bid to catch a rapist who struck outside a nightclub near Toomebridge.