Man appears in court charged with Damien Heagney murder

Damien Heagney was last seen on New Year’s Eve 2021 (PSNI/PA)

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man whose remains were found in a Co Tyrone reservoir.

During a brief hearing at Strabane Magistrates’ Court, Stephen Eugene McCourt, from McGartland Terrace, Dromore, was charged with murdering Damien Heagney between December 30 2021 and January 6 2022.