Police in the North have arrested a man in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old English girl in north Belfast last weekend.

Police will initiate an internal affairs investigation if it is established that officers failed to act on information which could have led to the capture of two men behind a brutal rape in Belfast, a senior policeman said today.

A distraught mother whose daughter was subjected to a sadistic double rape said tonight that the teenager’s life was in ruins.

Police in the North have released a man arrested yesterday in connection with the rape of an English girl on holiday in west Belfast.

DETECTIVES were yesterday questioning a man about the brutal double rape of a 15-year-old girl.

A gloating rapist called his teenage victim’s mother on a stolen mobile phone to tell her about the depraved attack, police revealed today.

A Northern Ireland fire chief warned today that one of his officers will be killed soon if gang attacks on crews continue.

Police in the North have arrested a man in connection with an incident in which a security guard was threatened with a gun yesterday morning.

World champion boxer Eamonn Magee, who was left with a broken leg after being dragged from his car and beaten by thugs in Belfast, also suffered a possible punctured lung, his coach said today.

A number of people have been injured after a car mounted a pavement in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, last night and ploughed into a group of pedestrians.

Dissident republican terrorists were tonight blamed for a failed bomb attack on the outskirts of Belfast.