Ballymena youths arrested over death threats

TWO girls were arrested yesterday over alleged death threats made against a young friend of murdered schoolboy Michael McIlveen.

The pair, both 15, were questioned following complaints that a girl had been targeted in Ballymena, Co Antrim, where sectarian tensions have been on a knife-edge.

The alleged victim, aged 16, was threatened because her parents are of mixed religion, her mother claimed.