Man charged in connection with prison officer served with book of evidence

A book of evidence was served on a 44-year-old man charged in connection with last year's murder of a prison officer in the North, at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

In December, last year Vincent Banks, of Smithfield Gate Apartments, Smithfield, Dublin 7, was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on December 18, 2012.