Two more charged over Ulster violence

Two more people were charged tonight in connection with the loyalist violence which erupted around a contentious Orange Order parade in North Belfast last month.

The charges came 48 hours after police made a fresh appeal for information and issued CCTV pictures of six males they wanted to interview.

They urged those involved in the violence to give themselves up before they got a knock on their door.

A 40-year-old man has been charged with two counts of arson and one of riotous assembly, said a police spokesman.

A 17-year-old youth has been charged with riotous assembly.

Both are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court tomorrow morning.

The violence broke out on September 10 when the Orange Order’s Whiterock Parade was barred from a short stretch of the nationalist Springfield Road by the Parades Commission.

Police came under petrol bomb and blast bomb attack and gunmen opened fire with live ammunition.

The street violence and that which spread across loyalist areas of Belfast over succeeding days was described as the worst seen in Northern Ireland for years.