Man on bail over checkpoint incident

A 21-year-old man appeared in court today charged with injuring a policeman who was dragged hundreds of yards down a road by the driver of a car trying to escape a checkpoint.

Jonathan McQuillan, from Mica Drive, in the Beechmount area of Belfast, faced a total of seven charges relating to an incident which happened in the early hours of Sunday in the seaside town of Newcastle, Co Down.