Three women held by Nelson probe police

Three women were arrested in Cornwall today by detectives investigating the loyalist paramilitary murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson.

The three, aged 24, 26 and 31, all from Co Armagh, were detained in Camborne, according to Norfolk Constabulary.

Mrs Nelson, 40, a mother of three, was killed in a booby trap explosion under her BMW car outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh, in March 1999.

The three women were arrested on suspicion of committing "serious terrorist" offences in Northern Ireland, according to a statement.

Nobody has been charged with Mrs Nelson’s murder, but the three arrested and sent back for questioning to Northern Ireland today were among several people interviewed by the inquiry team headed by Colin Port.