Regency shooting suspect to fight extradition from the North

A man alleged to have played a central part in the shooting dead of a man at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin is to fight extradition from Northern Ireland to the Republic.

Kevin Murray, aged 46, was identified by several people at the crime scene at the Regency Hotel in February, a barrister told a Belfast court.

He was arrested by police on Monday evening at a house in Strabane, Co Tyrone, on suspicion of murder and firearms offences after a European arrest warrant was issued by gardaí.