Five people were today being questioned about the brutal murder of a schoolboy savagely beaten in a sectarian attack in the North.

Detectives were tonight questioning the brother of a sectarian thug who was jailed for attempting to kill and cut up his battered Catholic victim.

DNA tests are to be carried out on leaflets seized during a raid on the home of a suspected Ulster Volunteer Force member, a court heard today.

A mum who sold photographs of her bathing children on eBay insisted today: “I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong.”

Around 60 homes were evacuated during an overnight bomb scare in west Belfast.

Terrorists tried to blow up a Catholic recruit to the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, it was revealed tonight.