Police issue apology for flawed investigation into pensioner stabbed while buying paper in Derry

Norman Moffatt was stabbed in Coleraine while going to buy a newspaper (Family Handout/PA)

Police have apologised to the family of a Coleraine murder victim for failings in their original investigation into the death.

Norman Moffatt, 73, was stabbed as he walked home from buying a paper on Railway Road in the Co Derry town on January 26 2001. He died in hospital two months later.