A father-of-two beaten to death in front of his family may have been involved in an argument hours earlier at a family wedding, a priest said today.

Detectives in the North have been given another 36 hours to question three people about the murder of a man beaten to death as he returned home from a wedding.

A man was battered to death in front of his teenage daughter early today as he returned home from a wedding, the PSNI said.