Sentences stand for NI schoolboy's killers

Jail terms handed down to the killers of a Catholic schoolboy in the North were not too lenient, the Attorney General’s office ruled today.

The sentences given to the four men guilty of beating to death 15-year Michael McIlveen in Ballymena three years ago had been referred to the office by the region’s Director of Public Prosecutions, who asked whether they could be increased.