A convicted rapist told a schoolgirl that he was a garda and threatened to arrest her, a court has heard.

The office and home of Northern Ireland Policing Board chairman Barry Gilligan were searched as part of an police investigation into a Belfast land deal.

A 25-year-old Welsh woman accused of stabbing a Leitrim man 13 times with three knives and then pouring boiling water over him has pleaded not guilty to his murder at the Central Criminal Court today.