Mackin retrial set for January

The Special Criminal Court has fixed a date next January for the retrial of Belfast man Gerard Mackin for the murder of a taxi driver in Belfast in 2007.

Mackin's 2008 conviction for murder was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal last week and a retrial was ordered. He was the first person convicted in a Dublin court for an alleged murder in Belfast under a cross-border anti-terrorist law.