Cleared of role in prison officer case

A man has been cleared of withholding information relating to the murder of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black.

Vincent Banks, aged 46, of Smithfield Gate Apartments in Dublin 7, had denied the charge at the Special Criminal Court of withholding information in relation to the murder between October 10 and December 20, 2012.

The court heard that Mr Black, aged 52, who worked at Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim, was murdered on the M1 motorway near Lurgan on November 1, 2012.